SEO NEWS
Having just finished the rollout of the Helpful Content Update, the next algorithm update is already underway. Google announced the September 2022 Core Update via its Twitter account on September 12, 2022. It is expected to be fully rolled out within the next two weeks. Today we released the September 2022 core update. We’ll update […]
Google announces the September 2022 Core Update Read More »
Gary Illyes from Google posted a new PSA on LinkedIn saying that the most common reason a site unexpectedly blocks Googlebot from crawling is due to a misconfiguration of a firewall or CDN. Gary wrote, “check what traffic your firewalls and CDN are blocking.” “By far the most common issue in my inbox is related
Google Say Most Common Reason For Blocking Googlebot Are Firewalls or CDNs Issues Read More »
In this article, we’ll see how to find and fix technical SEO issues, but only those that can seriously affect your rankings. If you’d like to follow along, get Ahrefs Webmaster Tools and Google Search Console (both are free) and check for the following issues. Indexability is a webpage’s ability to be indexed by search
9 Common Technical SEO Issues That Actually Matter Read More »
You can now customize SEO titles and descriptions for all LinkedIn articles you’ll publish or have already published. Why do we care? Whether you’re using LinkedIn to grow an audience for yourself, your company, or your clients, you want to take every opportunity you can to increase your exposure and search visibility. This is super
LinkedIn now allows you to add an SEO title and description Read More »
Google analyst Gary Illyes offers guidance on large robots.txt files, the SEO impact of website redesigns, and the proper use of rel-canonical tags. Illyes accepts questions sent to him via LinkedIn direct message and answers them publicly, providing valuable insight to members of the SEO community. For a Googler, sharing SEO tips is already newsworthy.
Gary Illyes from Google Answers Your SEO Questions On LinkedIn Read More »
Google has updated the Discover Follow feed guide to emphasize the importance of two elements Google has updated its Google Discover feed guidelines to highlight the most important elements to include in a feed to properly optimize it. Google Discover Feed The Google Discover follower feed feature provides Chrome Android users with relevant content and
Google Updates Discover Follow the guidelines for feeds Read More »
Inbound links, or backlinks, are still important for SEO. But they are becoming less important to Google. We know the latter to be true as Googlers have been reiterating this for years. In November, Duy Nguyen of Google’s Search Quality team expressed the same thing, explaining why link building campaigns are a waste of time
Where should you spend your SEO budget? Read More »
Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT train using multiple sources of information, including web content. This information forms the basis of the content summaries that are presented in the form of articles without giving or benefiting to those who published the original content used to train ChatGPT. Search engines download web content (called crawling
Is ChatGPT’s use of web content fair? Read More »
A couple of weeks after I told you that I thought Google was going to stop publishing SEO case studies, Google just published a new one. Here’s how Vimeo improved video SEO for their clients, specifically by combining the indexifembedded rule with noindex and adding structured data. As a reminder, Mariachiara Marsella recently asked John
Google publishes a new SEO case study, this one on video SEO from Vimeo Read More »
Yoast version 20.0 released introduces major changes to the user interface intended to make it easier to optimize a WordPress site. New User Interface The Yoast 20.0 user interface doesn’t do away with the old method of making users click multiple tabs to access pages with multiple options. The new version of Yoast introduces a
The Yoast SEO 20.0 update brings big changes Read More »