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There may be another Google search ranking algorithm update rolling out again. This one started around Tuesday, December 1, 2020. Google has not confirmed this but there is chatter and the tracking tools are also showing an update. There is chatter at WebmasterWorld where some feel that this is a big one. First posts about
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UK lockdown v2 – accelerating digital transformation during reduced national mobility. As England settled into week 2 of a full national lockdown for the second time, the majority of sectors and industries strained under the thought of how they might stay in front-of-mind of their customers. We can help with your SEO and Content strategy
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GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Join host Ben as he continues his conversation with Kalicube founder and author Jason Barnard to discuss another SERP feature – Knowledge panels. Together they talk about what they are and the best methods to get your brand featured in one. The knowledge panel collects information from across the web
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How are Personalized Ranking of Search Results Calculated at Google? I wrote about an earlier version of this patent when it was still a patent application in 2012 in the post Google’s User Profile Personalization and Google Plus. This patent has been filed 4 times by Google and wasn’t granted until the fourth version, which
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Relevance Ordered Categories for Search Results on Mobile Devices? As a reporter for the Daily Planet, Clark Kent most likely searches for news related information. His Alter Ego, and Super Hero, Superman, likely searches for comics-related material such as a kryptonite protection suit. Imagine a search engine that provides relevance-ordered categories of information to searchers
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So here is a photo that Gary Illyes from Google shared of him and a couple of his colleagues from the Google Zurich office having dinner together. You can see Martin Splitt and Aurora Morales with him. I cannot fully make out what was being served for dinner outside of the bowl of olives but
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Google Merchant Center seems to be rolling out a new reporting feature that lets you build your own performance report. You should be able to access this in the Google Merchant Center under the “Performance” tab. Brodie Clark spotted this update and posted about it on Twitter. He said he is “seeing new reporting functionality
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Color plays a significant role in design; it helps create emotions, draw interest, and convey messages. Color is even more important when it comes to design accessibility. According to the World Health Organization, “it is estimated that at least 2.2 billion people [globally] have a vision impairment or blindness.” Inclusive practices, like accessible color
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Ryan Siddle, an SEO, asked John Mueller of Google if Google supports nested XML sitemap index files. The answer is no, Google does not support it. John said on Twitter “no, it’s not supported — sorry.” Here are those tweets: Having the XML Sitemap Index of Sitemap Index URLs would enable new categories to be
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So let’s say you are searching for pizza stores in Saint Moritz, Switzerland – does that mean you live there or you are about to travel there. Google’s John Mueller said while Google does try to understand where you are searching from, it does not differentiate between “living in X” from “traveling in X”. Here
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