Google on occasion tells you which method of technology they prefer over others. They did it with mobile, saying go responsive over other methods. They did it was schema markup solutions, saying JSON-LD is preferred over other methods. But using a preferred method does not give you any benefit in Google Search than a non-preferred
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Google documents in its Core Web Vital reports the scores and grades for each URL it knows about on the web. But how that will impact your web rankings in Google Search, when the Page Experience Update is released next month, Google will not document how those metrics add up and are scored. John Mueller
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Google launched a new search appearance filter in the performance report within Search Console for the practice problem rich results. Google officially launched these in March, after testing them last December. With the launch Google added structured data and debugging tools but now also added performance reporting to Search Console. If you have rich results
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In March we reported that Google was going to migrate over the last batch of sites to mobile first indexing soon. This was after moving the mobile first indexing deadline from September 2020 to March 2021. Well, Google is still not done moving some sites to mobile-first indexing, even at the end of May 2021.
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Google’s John Mueller was asked if redirecting a URL to a new URL will also pass the Core Web Vitals metrics. The short answer is yes, if you redirect page A to new page B, page A’s Core Web Vitals metrics and signals will passed over from page A to new page B. This question
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Predictive Search Suggestions Based on Location This patent is about providing information relevant to search queries. Internet search engines identify resources, e.g., Web pages, images, text documents, and multimedia content, in response to queries submitted by searchers and they work to present information about those resources in a useful manner to the searchers. One assumption
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“None of us is as smart as all of us.” Ken Blanchard As a project manager, I’ve found collaboration and communication to be some of the more complex and delicate aspects of the professional world. Replace critical communication components such as body language and tone with text on a screen, and things get
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It looks like Jason Barnard made some new shirts or sweat shirts with the BingBot and GoogleBot characters on them and of course, his slogan on “it’s all about your brand SERP.” He shared both on Twitter, here they are in higher resolution: And I did Googlebot too so nobody gets left out Sorry for
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Last week I saw a bunch of people notice Google showing a trending searches box on the Google Search home page. We saw this in the auto-complete results and in Google Discover results, but I don’t think I’ve seen it as a standalone feature on the Google home page. Here is one of the many
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Google’s John Mueller was asked if it is against Google’s webmaster guidelines to create a blog and build content that is unrelated to your business, with the sole intent of building links. John said no, it is not against Google’s guidelines but that the whole thing is a “wasted opportunity.” In short, the example give