Google: All Core Web Vitals May Need to Be Met For Ranking Boost
All three Core Web Vitals benchmarks must be met to qualify for the ranking signal boost rolling out this May, says Google’s John Mueller.
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Google has 12 new types of manual action penalties which involve violations of Google News and Google Discover policies.
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Google’s John Mueller says identical content published in different formats, such as a video and a blog post, is not considered duplicate content.
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WordPress Boots Pirated Themes and Plugins
WordPress issued a statement that pirated themes and plugins are prohibited from being distributed from the official repositories
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Google Discusses Impact of Tags on Rankings
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Google Search Console Changes Core Web Vitals Reporting
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WordPress 5.6.1 Introduces Bug Into Post and Page Windows
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Google on SEO Best Practices for News Sites & Short Articles
Google’s John Mueller answers questions about SEO best practices for news websites, particularly as it relates to publishing shorter articles.
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In Memoriam: Hamlet Batista Has Passed Away
The industry reacts to the sad news of the passing of Hamlet Batista, CEO of RankSense and a Search Engine Journal contributor.
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Google Search Console Updated With New Associations Page
Google Search Console has a new and enhanced Associations page which will carry over all existing associations.
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Core Web Vitals Not Really Your Problem?
Google is burdening the USERS of software like WordPress and not the developers to fix it for Core Web Vitals. Is that fair?
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Google: Embedded Videos Have Same SEO Value as Uploaded Content
Google’s John Mueller says there’s no difference, when it comes to SEO, between embedded videos and videos natively uploaded to a website.
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Core Web Vitals Challenge: WordPress vs Everyone
Real-world data is used to select which CMS is the Core Web Vitals Champion. WordPress versus Joomla, Drupal, Squarespace and Wix
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Google Discusses Natural Backlinks
Google’s John Mueller discusses the mindset for achieving natural backlinks
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Wix vs WordPress? Mueller Says Solve Content Issues
Google’s John Mueller suggested content issues are important for small businesses to solve in a discussion of Wix versus WordPress for local SEO
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Google Maps Search Trends For January 2021
Google is sharing insights about trending searches on Google Maps, a rare set of search data which may assist local marketers.
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