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Track Santa With Google & NORAD Santa Tracker Apps

Track Santa’s location this Christmas Eve with the Google & NORAD Santa tracker apps, which are now live worldwide.

Matt Southern
12/24/2021
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Google’s Advice For Targeting Multiple Locations With One Website

Google provides detailed advice for websites that need to target multiple locations, such as a business with offices in different states.

Matt Southern
1/18/2022
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Google: One Part Of Site Can Hurt Entire Site Quality

John Mueller discusses how Google assesses websites for site quality, which is important given how so many sites have trouble with indexing

Roger Montti
1/7/2022
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Google Answers Why Entire Top 10 is “Stolen” Content

Danny Sullivan explains why deduplication may temporarily cause an article headline search to drop original article to page 2 of search results

Roger Montti
1/21/2022
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Google On How To Improve SEO Audits

Google’s Martin Splitt offers advice on how to improve SEO audits in a way that makes them more useful to web developers.

Matt Southern
12/29/2021
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Google Search Console Geotargeting Can Hurt Search Rankings

Utilizing Google Search Console’s international targeting feature, also known as “geotargeting,” can hurt search rankings if you’re trying to reach a wide audience.

Matt Southern
1/3/2022
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Google Considers Reducing Webpage Crawl Rate

Google may reduce the frequency of crawling webpages as it grows more conscious of the sustainability of crawling and indexing.

Matt Southern
1/20/2022
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Google Gives Sites More Indexing Control With New Robots Tag

A new robots tag, called indexifembedded, lets websites give Google more direction over which content to index in search results.

Matt Southern
1/21/2022
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Google Search Console Updated With Page Experience Desktop Report

Google Search Console has a new report dedicated to evaluating Page Experience criteria on the desktop versions of webpages.

Matt Southern
1/17/2022
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SEO Strategy: A Full Year Blueprint (+Template) [Ebook]

Get an easy-to-follow 12-month SEO blueprint to create profitable strategies, track your progress, and adapt quickly.

Anna Crowe
1/11/2022
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How To Help Google Rank Products With Duplicate Descriptions

Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller offers advice on how to write unique descriptions for similar types of products without running into duplicate content issues.

Roger Montti
1/8/2022
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Does Uniqueness of Content Help Rankings?

Google’s John Mueller offers a surprising insight on uniqueness of content and ranking

Roger Montti
1/11/2022
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Does Google Use Analytics and Chrome Data for Ranking?

Google’s John Mueller answers questions about bounce rate and whether Chrome and Analytics data is used for ranking purposes

Roger Montti
1/10/2022
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Google Has Two Types Of Crawling – Discovery & Refresh

Google utilizes two types of crawling methods when it goes through webpages — one to discover new content and one to refresh existing content.

Matt Southern
1/10/2022
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Does Domain Extension Affect SEO? Google’s John Mueller Explains

Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller answers whether your domain extension affects SEO, and other questions related to the search impact of domain choices.

Matt Southern
1/6/2022
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Google Can’t Provide Details About Core Algorithm Updates

Announcements about core algorithm updates are unlikely to get more detailed in the future, as Google says it can’t provide specific information.

Matt Southern
1/11/2022
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Google Uses Different Algorithms For Different Languages

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.