Are SEOs Unwilling To Say “I Don’t Know”?
Martin Splitt, Google’s Developer Advocate, believes SEO professionals are unwilling to admit when they don’t know something, which causes friction with developers.
Matt G. Southern, Senior News Writer, has been with Search Engine Journal since 2013. With a bachelor’s degree in communications, Matt specializes in gathering details, checking facts, and making complex subjects easy to understand. In addition to writing articles, Matt oversees strategy development for SEJ’s news department.
Martin Splitt, Google’s Developer Advocate, believes SEO professionals are unwilling to admit when they don’t know something, which causes friction with developers.
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki defends the removal of dislike counts on videos in her annual letter outlining the company’s priorities for the year.
Google says there are no plans for a Core Web Vitals badge in search results after proposing the idea when the metrics were first introduced.
Contextual links add value rather than being a distraction. But do you need them in order to rank? Discover the answer here.
Google says it’s impossible to prevent outages from happening, but the company is aiming to get better at alerting the community when issues are found.
A new robots tag, called indexifembedded, lets websites give Google more direction over which content to index in search results.
Google may reduce the frequency of crawling webpages as it grows more conscious of the sustainability of crawling and indexing.
Google uses the same search algorithms for most languages, but there are certain cases where a language requires a different algorithm to interpret the queries.
LinkedIn is adding three new courses to its free resource center where people can learn all about how to market themselves and their business.
Instagram is building on its monetization capabilities with a new subscriptions feature, which allows creators to make monthly recurring income.
Here’s what Google advises regarding the use of FAQ markup on only select questions within a Q&A section.
Google addresses the subject of robots.txt files and whether it’s a good SEO practice to keep them within a reasonable size.
Google provides detailed advice for websites that need to target multiple locations, such as a business with offices in different states.
Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller explains how the search engine uses synonyms and whether there’s a human component to it.
Google Search Console has a new report dedicated to evaluating Page Experience criteria on the desktop versions of webpages.
Instagram explains how it ranks the content people see when browsing through Reels, insights you can use to create more successful clips.
DuckDuckGo celebrates a milestone of 100 billion total searches, but the search engine’s year-over-year growth is slowing down.
Does link velocity matter? Let’s have a look at its origins and see whether link velocity needs consideration in link building.
Google admits its help documents aren’t always up to date and says it’s worthwhile doing your own research on recommended best practices.
Microsoft is making the IndexNow protocol easier to implement by ensuring submitted URLs are simultaneously shared between search engines.
LinkedIn reports attendance for its virtual live events are up 231% year-over-year. Building on this success, LinkedIn is launching audio-only live events.
Yoast SEO is partnering with Wincher to offer users the ability to track keyword ranking positions for their WordPress pages.
Announcements about core algorithm updates are unlikely to get more detailed in the future, as Google says it can’t provide specific information.
Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller advises that the nofollow link attribute isn’t a substitute for the noindex directive. Googlebot can find and index nofollowed links.
Google utilizes two types of crawling methods when it goes through webpages — one to discover new content and one to refresh existing content.
Four updates have rolled out to Twitter this week, which include new ways to react to tweets, new ways to compose tweets, and more.
Google offers a number of certificates that allow you to fast-track your career toward jobs in high-demand digital fields.
Instagram is adding two new feeds to the app, and updating the existing home feed with more content from accounts you don’t already follow.
Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller answers whether your domain extension affects SEO, and other questions related to the search impact of domain choices.
Keyword stuffing was a widely used technique because it yielded results. But is it a ranking factor today?