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Yesterday, Google sent out a slew of notifications through Google Search Console about security or web compatibility issues upcoming with the site and Chrome 91. The email says there are new requirements for SharedArrayBuffers (SABs). The email explains that “Google systems have recently detected that SharedArrayBuffers (SABs) are uses on your site, but COOP and/or […]

Google on Friday posted a new Google logo, super G logo, on its Twitter account of the logo double masking. Google back in June 2020 added a mask to that same logo as well. But now it is promoting double masking. It also had a mask on its emoji Christmas tree. Here is the tweet:

On February 19th or so, Google significantly dropped the number of times featured snippets would show up in the Google Search results. Well, as of Friday morning, March 12th, it looks like the percentage of time Google shows featured snippets in the results are back to normal. Here are screenshots from the tracking tools showing

Microsoft announced that you can now use static headlines within your Microsoft Advertising Dynamic Search Ads (DSAs). Static headlines are an additional column you can add to your Dynamic Search Ads page feed. This allows you to specify the specific ad title you want to show up for a particular URL you have in your

Does it matter if you put the rel attribute in your HTML link before the link or after it? The answer is no. You can put the attribute in your HTML link where you want. Google will pick it up either way. John Mueller of Google was asked this on Reddit “Does the order of

Aleyda Solis posted a poll on Twitter asking SEOs if SEO “easier, more difficult or as difficult as 5 years ago to achieve results/goals in the SEO processes you work on?” Over 1,000 results came in and 60% of SEOs say it is harder now to do SEO than it was five years ago.

In part one, Alex Genadinik of Problemio and I spoke about why it is important to focus on niches for SEO. In part two here we talk about what you can do to make money online during COVID-19. But the truth is, most of the information you see online about making money online does not

Google’s John Mueller said once again that Google does use the words in the URL as a ranking factor. But John explained that this is a “very very lightweight factor.” John added that it becomes even less of a factor once the content is indexed. John said this at the 51:34 mark after asked about

Here is a photo from 2019 of a coaster from the Google Tel Aviv office. Yes that is a photo of Googlebot on a wooden coaster held by the one and only Lizzi Harvey of Google. She posted this photo on Twitter a while back and wrote “I found evergreen Googlebot at Google Tel Aviv!”

We know that Google recommends using a 503 server status code for your your website goes offline or down temporarily for less than a day (hours not multiple days). But what if you know your site will be offline for days? John Mueller of Google said try to see if you can upload a static,