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Website Themes Impact SEO

Google’s John Mueller says that website themes impact SEO. Site design and SEO experts share what to know before choosing a website theme

Roger Montti
9/15/2021
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Google Title Tag Update Casualties Lose Search Traffic

Google’s Title Tag Update is causing so much disruption that some have started calling it Titlepocalypse

Roger Montti
8/26/2021
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Google Lighthouse 8.3.0 Update

Update affects PageSpeed Insights, SEO description emphasizes CWV over SEO and introduces Project Fraggle Rock

Roger Montti
9/8/2021
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Why Web Pages Disappear from Search Console Reports

Google’s John Mueller answers why the amount of web pages in various search console reports may decline month after month

Roger Montti
9/4/2021
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Google Wants to Fix Page Title Rewrites

Google’s Danny Sullivan hears the criticism of the recent page title rewrite update and suggests a way that it could be improved.

Matt Southern
8/22/2021
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The State of SEO 2021: Key Industry Survey Findings [Research]

Search Engine Journal’s first State of SEO Report will help guide your SEO strategy into 2022 with unique data, graphs, and commentary.

Shelley Walsh
9/7/2021
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Google Still Uses Original Page Titles For Search Rankings

Google’s John Mueller confirms a webpage’s original title will still be used for ranking purposes even when it’s replaced in SERPs.

Matt Southern
9/7/2021
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We Analyzed 88 Google Ranking Factors & Here’s What We Found [Ebook]

Have you ever wondered what is and isn’t a ranking factor? This guide determines whether these 88 signals are Google ranking factors.

Danny Goodwin
9/14/2021
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Google Reports Data Loss in Search Console

Google reports a data loss in Search Console in the month of August. As a result, you may see drop in your performance reports.

Matt Southern
8/26/2021
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What’s Driving Google’s Title Tag Rewrites?

What Google recommends for title tags and if that influences why title tags are rewritten

Roger Montti
9/13/2021
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Google’s Link Spam Update Is Complete

Google seems to be more vocal regarding communicating updates and offering additional advice to marketers. The Link Spam update is the latest to be completed.

Rebekah Dunne
8/27/2021
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Google’s Page Title Update is Dynamic and Reactive to Changes

As more new information comes out about Google’s update to generating web page titles, we learn it’s dynamic and will react to on-site changes.

Matt Southern
8/25/2021
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Google News Sending Users Directly to Publishers’ Websites

An update rolling out soon to the Google News app will send users directly to publishers’ own webpages, rather than being sent to AMP pages.

Matt Southern
9/5/2021
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Google Page Experience Update Fully Rolled Out – This is Why it Matters

Google’s Page Experience Update finished rolling out. These are the reasons why this update is important.

Roger Montti
9/3/2021
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WordPress Parent Company Acquires Headless CMS Frontity

The parent company of WordPress.com acquired headless CMS company Frontity. The acquisition is seen as a significant milestone for the WordPress community

Roger Montti
9/1/2021
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TikTok Reveals What Makes A High Performing Ad On Its Platform

TikTok has published 4 best practices that have resulted in increased impressions for their video ads. The social platform also gives advice to eCommerce brands.