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Google’s John Mueller said that Google Search tries “to find the primary language per page.” So when you mix languages, that might cause issues with Google doing that. He added on Twitter “but what you put on different pages is totally up to you.” Here is that tweet: Sure, no problem. We try to find […]

I found it interesting that the local tracking tool, BrightLocal’s Local RankFlux, showed big ranking fluctuations in the local results at around the same time we saw the ranking spikes for the Google July core update. Just to be clear, Google has said local results are not really impacted by these core updates – more

Google announced a bit after 1pm ET on July 12th that the Google July 2021 core update is “effectively complete.” That means, in Google lingo, that it is done rolling out 12-days after it first started rolling out on July 1, 2021. The announcement was on Twitter: The July 2021 core update rollout is now

This piece was put together by Nichola Stott, manager director of Erudite and friend of Dan Bell, with contributions by Amy McCartney, Sally Edgar and Pete Young. On 1st July 2021 we learned of the passing of Dan Bell, following a serious accident some weeks prior. Many of us in the SEO and wider digital

We’ve covered numerous fire pits at the various Google offices including the Boulder office, inside and outside the Chicago office and Google For Entrepreneurs pit. Here is one at the Google Kirkland office with a Google logo in the fire pit itself. I found this on Instagram. This post is part of our daily Search

On Friday, July 9th, it looks like the Google July 2021 core update spiked again. Glenn Gabe asked Danny Sullivan of Google if the update was done and Danny said on Friday “not quite done.” I suspect we saw the end wave of this update around July 9th. Here are those tweets: Not quite done.

Google’s John Mueller said that “you’ll start to see positive effects once you get out of the “poor” area in core web vitals.” This means that you may see a positive impact around the Google page experience update once your pages are out of the red area. Scoring 100 is not necessary. John added on

A few years ago we reported that Google may treat a 308 redirects as a 301 redirect. Then shortly later we said you can’t rely on that because it was not documented. Three years later it was added to the official Google documents that Google treats 308 redirects like 301 redirects – so now it

I found a question and answer dialog between an SEO and John Mueller of Google on last Friday’s hangout interesting. The answer to the question for most of you is obvious, exchanging a link for a link is against Google’s guidelines but it seems some may think it is not if they are topically relevant.