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Last night Google began sending notifications via Google Search Console about HTTP/2 crawling. If Google has started to crawl your site over HTTP/2, Google will send you this notification. Just a heads up, this process began in a limited way in September and November of 2020. Now, according to Gary Illyes, “the h2 crawler traffic […]

Here is a photo from one of the spaces in the Google Malaysian office of a cafe I think named Gerai Gugel. You can see this appealing looking colorful fabric swing bench next to still benches. This was posted on Instagram in 2017 and “designed to resemble a outdoor courtyard, the office cafe – charmingly

If you are too focused on one specific area of your website, you can be missing out on other areas that need your attention. Being too laser focused, in any area, can cause you to lose sight of the larger picture and can end up hurting you in the long run. This is good generic

There is some speculation in certain SEO groups and forums that Google has launched a new algorithm that is better than BERT and RankBrain named SMITH. SMITH stands for Siamese Multi-depth Transformer-based Hierarchical (SMITH) Encoder. This is not live, it is currently just a research paper from Google. Danny Sullivan from Google confirmed this for

I know I just reported about an unconfirmed Google ranking algorithm update around January 7th and 8th but I think I am seeing signs of another one that started to get noticed January 12th or maybe the day before. I am seeing both chatter at the SEO forums and the some of the tools are

When Google announced the launch date of the Google Page Experience Update it also said that they may launch a label or indicator in the search results to convey to the searcher which pages do well with those metrics. We saw Google testing this icon a while back as well. But keep in mind, this

Google has launched a brand new performance report just for Google News publishers within Google Search Console. Only Google News publishers should be able to see it, like only those who get Google Discover traffic can see the Discover performance report. It is important to note that this is different from news filter in the

The Google Tel Aviv, Israel office has a farm tractor inside of the office building. No joke. Here is a photo of it. It is probably an old one that was taken from an Israeli Kibbutz after it stopped working? This is an old photo, from April 2017, that I had in the archives on

We have seen John Mueller of Google respond to this question before, the question of why does my competitor rank above me when they are doing X, Y and Z wrong. Why does this site rank when they are spamming or have lower quality content, etc. The answer is typically short and to the point;

If you had to prioritize your content strategies as an SEO, where would you focus? For me, if I had more time, I would focus on category page content because clearly the individual blog related content I produce is frequent and somewhat enjoyed by the readers here. But for you, that might be different. I