Back in December 2019 or so, Google stopped the requirement for news publishers to manually submit their news site to be included in Google News. Instead, Google said it will automatically through its algorithms figure out what sites to include in Google News. The problem is, this new process is a complete failure for new

In October 2019, Fabrice Canel of Microsoft told us about a new content submission API to not feed just URLs to Bing but to feed the content on those URLs (content, images, HTML, etc) to Bing as well. Well, more details about this API are coming next month said Fabrice Canel. I asked Fabrice about

Often when it comes to getting a better score in some of the core web vital metrics it is about making your images faster to load. One SEO asked if they can downsize the images in a very heavy way where the image would become blurry in order to improve the score. John Mueller of

Martin Splitt from Google confirmed that Google Search does not measure title tags by the number of pixels. He said “that was a joke” when it was mentioned in the live version of the Search Off The Record podcast. Martin Splitt said this on Twitter when it came up: That was a joke ???? —

Google announced this morning new features to improve Google Maps, including improved curbside pickup and delivery options. Plus, the company announced improvements to indoor live view navigation, air quality data and driving directions that are eco-friendly. But let’s focus on the curbside and delivery features here. Google said it is bringing more information to a

Before going offline for this long three-day holiday, I saw rumblings of a possible Google update about to rollout. I was a bit nervous it was a core update but Google did not confirm any update and now that I am back online, the chatter, although elevated, is not at core update levels. But there

Here is a photo from the Google Cambridge office from 2018 of Googlers playing mini golf inside the office. I wonder when we will see Googlers doing this again. Do you think by the end of the year? This was shared on Instagram. This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day

As you know, Semrush went public last Thursday, we posted some photos. But the following morning, Semrush’s logo and information was right in the center of NYC, Time Square for all to see. Again, proud moment for the SEO industry and congrats again to Semrush! Semrush wrote on Twitter on Friday “We are taking over

As I covered at Search Engine Land the other day, Fabrice Canel From Microsoft issued a feature request to WordPress to bake into the product instant indexing. Well, really, instant pushing of URLs to the search engines so the search engines don’t have to crawl sites to find new or updated content. Fabrice wrote on