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Google: Suggestions for Ranking Product Pages
Google’s John Mueller offers suggestions on how to improve search visibility for product pages
Google Changes Eligibility for Fact Check Rich Results
Eligibility for Fact Check rich results for pages using the ClaimReview structured data has changed. Non-compliant pages will lose rich results
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TikTok Launches 8 New Features For Livestreams
TikTok is rolling out eight new features for livestreams which includes Q&A, picture-in-picture, the ability to schedule streams in advance, and more.
Pinterest Users Can Make Money With Affiliate Links
Pinterest is rolling out new ways for users to earn money on the site, including the ability to earn commission through affiliate links.
What Google Does With Feedback From Search Results
Google goes over what it does with feedback sent in via the ‘send feedback’ button at the bottom of search results.
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Are Hyphens in Domain Names OK for Google?
Are keywords in the domain name overrated? Google’s John Mueller discusses keywords in domain names in the context of SEO.
Google Link Spam Algorithm Update Rolling Out on July 26
Google begins rolling out the “link spam update,” which makes its algorithms more effective at identifying and nullifying link spam.
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Why Google May Remove a Site’s FAQ Rich Results
Google’s John Mueller explains the reasons why Google may remove FAQ rich results displayed by a site
Austria Joins The Google News Showcase
On 21st July 2021, national, local, and regional news organizations in Austria joined over 800 news publications by signing up to the Google News Showcase.
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Akamai Outage Pulls Major Sites Offline Globally
Akamai software update triggers bug in DNS taking world’s biggest and most popular sites offline. Akamai pledges to review update process
Google Expands ‘About This Result’ With Info On Ranking Factors
Google is expanding the ‘About This Result’ panel with information about what factors went into ranking a page in search results.
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Google’s 5 Best Practices For Optimizing Deal Pages
After making deal pages free for all ecommerce stores, Google offers six best practices to follow to optimize the pages for search results.
Google: Keep Redirects Live For One Year
Google’s Gary Illyes advises keeping redirects in place for at least one year in order to ensure ranking signals are passed permanently.
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Twitter Tests Voting On Tweets
Twitter carries out an experiment that gives users the option to ‘down vote’ or up vote’ a reply within a Twitter conversation.
LinkedIn Offers Free Marketing Certification Program
LinkedIn is now offering a free marketing certification program that anyone can take to become an accredited LinkedIn marketing expert.
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Google’s New 3-Strike Policy – The Checks & Balances
Learn what counts as a strike, how to get strikes removed, how strikes accumulate over time and the associated penalties.
Google Launches Free Deals Listings in Search Results
Google is rolling out a new way for ecommerce stores to list deals in search results, which is currently free for all merchants.
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WordPress 5.8 Released With Nearly 300 New Features & Fixes
A major version upgrade of WordPress was released, version 5.8, containing nearly 300 improvements and new features
Google: No SEO Advantage to Dedicated Hosting
Google’s John Mueller affirms that dedicated web hosting does not have an SEO advantage over shared hosting.
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Google’s 7 Tips For Analyzing a Google Search Traffic Drop
Google gives site owners seven tips for analyzing the main causes of drops in organic search traffic.
Why GoogleBot Doesn’t Crawl Enough Pages on Some Sites
Google’s John Mueller explains the factors that influence how many pages from a site get crawled… and why some pages are not crawled
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Bing Clarity Rage Clicks Report Helps Improve UX
Bing explains how rage clicks indicate a poor user experience and how the free Clarity heat map feature identifies them
Mueller Asked About Lag in Google Search Console Indexing Report
Google’s John Mueller explains what looks like a bug in Search Console that reports indexed URLs as crawled but not indexed
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Facebook Pay Rolling Out to Shopify Sites in August
Facebook Pay will be available as a checkout option for all Shopify sites in the US starting this August.
YouTube Rolls Out 3 Updates For Live Streams
YouTube’s path toward feature parity with Twitch continues as the company announces three updates exclusively for livestreams.
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Google Launches New Way to Optimize Videos For Search
Google has a new way to optimize videos for search results when they’re published on a creator’s own website rather than YouTube.
Google Shares 5 Insights Into Appearing in Google News
Google shares five insights that can help site owners better understand how news appears on surfaces like Google News and Google Search.
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WordPress 5.9 May Boost a Core Web Vitals Metric by Up to 33%
Proposed update for WordPress 5.9 may automatically improve Largest Contentful Paint scores by significant margins
Twitter Ends Fleets 9 Months After Launch
Twitter is giving up on Fleets nine months after rolling it out to everyone, saying the feature didn’t accomplish what the company hoped it would.
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WooCommerce Vulnerability Affects Millions of WordPress Sites
WooCommerce announced a patch for a critical vulnerability that is rolling out as a forced update. Publishers urged to check if updated
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