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Google’s John Mueller answered five different SEO related questions in a video less than two minutes long. It is called the SEO Lighting Round video where he answered the following questions. Here is the video: Here are the questions: (1) Can a self referential canonical override an existing canonical or preferred page? (submitted by @adityaskrishnan) […]

I covered this the other day but it needs to be pulled out and emphasized as its own story. Google said that pages can be included in the top stories carousel and section even if the core web vitals is not “cleared” or met. This seemed to be different from what we originally reported that

Google’s John Mueller said when it comes to crawl budget, it is possible that Google may group your subdomains together for crawl budget purposes. John explained “our systems try to figure out which infrastructure belongs together.” Some may have thought Google will have different crawl budget allocations per domain, subdomain and so forth. But it

Rand Fishkin posted on Twitter several updated stats and information around his most recent zero-click search study. There are some interesting tidbits in this update but more importantly, I think if Rand can take the industry feedback and work to update the study, Google can take the industry feedback and share some of its data.

This past weekend we had yet another unconfirmed update from Google Search, this is while we wait for the core update to be released. Google has updated its FAQs document around the core web vitals and page experience update including that it will likely be a light weight tiebreaker signal and that top stories don’t

I am still not over losing rel prev/rel next and Google’s John Mueller was asked about it on a video hangout from yesterday. In short, John said Google is no longer using this and no longer needs to. Google is now “able to recognize common types of pagination setups on our own,” he said. Google’s

Here is a photo I found on Instagram of the Google Tower in Atlanta, Georgia. It is a model of the building, the ones they show off at real estate meetings and such. The building should be done soon, I believe. There are more photos that I embedded below. This post is part of our

In July 2020 Google told us they would begin to notify businesses when they are suspended from Google My Business. Instead of just being suspended and being labeled as such in Google My Business, Google would send out email notifications. Well, now I am seeing reports of such suspension email notifications. Ben Fisher shared on

Back in December we reported Google was testing a “new” label in the local business reviews for reviews about a month old. Well, that new label seems to be live now in the local reviews for all to see. I can see it for my own business profile on both desktop and mobile: @FrancastroKW first

Google’s John Mueller said in the Friday webmaster hangout said that “especially for medical topics, anything that’s a little bit more critical” Google is more selective and critical over. He said he would see an “medical e-commerce site kind of falling into that category.” In short, Google will apply a higher level of scrutiny on