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Google’s John Mueller said on Mastodon that for small and local businesses, “in most cases,” core web vitals work should not be at the top of their list. He said this because the page experience ranking factor is not huge and more so, for sites with very few pages, Google doesn’t usually have CrUX data […]

Google AdSense is updating the Sites page, where you define which sites you want to monetize using AdSense. The updates are coming on March 20, 2023, and include a redesigned Sites page and some changes to the rules on how site management works. Google said, “The Sites page is the starting point for anyone who

Google’s John Mueller said on Mastodon that an existing site would not drop in ranking just because it uses an exact match domain. “Changes like that would be due to other reasons,” he added. In response to John personally not being a fan of these exact match, keyword-rich hyphenated domains, an SEO complained one of

Google has just added a new feature to export your data in bulk, on an ongoing basis, from Google Search Console to Google’s BigQuery. Daniel Waisberg from Google said on Twitter, “I have been dreaming about this for a long time, so excited to see it live.” You can initiate a daily export of all

Microsoft Bing is testing not showing the citations or links to publishers by default for some results in the Edge Sidebar. So instead of showing the links to the publishers, Bing is showing “click to view,” and when you click it, then Bing will show you those citations or links. This was spotted and covered

Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Microsoft Bing (yes, Satya Nadella is the CEO of Microsoft but Bing has its sub-CEO), said on Twitter that they have fixed the systematic “Something went wrong” issue that some of you have seen over the past week or so with the new Bing AI Chat. He said on Twitter,

An aggregator is a business that collects and rearranges an existing commodity in a way that provides value to the customer. Aggregators typically don’t create content because the content is being provided to them through other creators. Think Google, Facebook, YouTube, or Spotify.  Integrators are on the opposite side of the spectrum. An integrator is

What happens when the noindex, nofollow directives are in the HTTP header and that URL is also being redirected somewhere, will Google respect or ignore the directive. Gary Illyes from Google hinted that Google will likely ignore the directive to be safe. William Sear asked Gary Illyes “Will directives (noindex, nofollow) from a URL that

Last June, Google began testing a “profile strength” widget or status icon that shows you if you need to do more with your Google Business Profile. Well, that just went live on Friday and seemed to be fully rolled out. But many local SEOs are not happy with it. Google places a little icon next