Interaction to Next Paint (INP) will replace First Input Delay (FID) as a Core Web Vitals metric starting in March 2024, Google announced at Google I/O today. Google hinted at this change for about a year now. But now it’s official. What is Interaction to Next Paint? INP is a metric that uses data from … Read more
Did you know that some of the improvements being made to the Bing Chat AI ****** will lead to improvements to the Bing Search core ranking algorithms? Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Bing, said this on Twitter yesterday. Glenn Gabe asked him “So AI model improvements will ultimately improve Bing’s core search algo, but the … Read more
On March 15th, 2023 Google announced the release of the March 2023 Core Update. The update, the first since the September 2022 Core Update, was done rolling out on March 28th and brought with it a significant amount of rank fluctuations. With this update, there were a few things to note: 1) the amount of … Read more
Keeping things up to **** is critical to maintaining security. But it’s not just security patches that need to be installed. Most software has a shelf life, and support life. If things get out of ****, and vendors no longer support some versions they become vulnerable. A recent example of this is a version of … Read more
December 16, 2020 | Posted by Mordy Oberstein The data and overall consensus point to Google’s December 2020 Core Update is it’s one of the more impactful algorithm adjustments to hit the SERP over the past year or so. As powerful as the update was, wouldn’t it be nice to know what happened? … Read more
June 9, 2021 | Posted by Darrell Mordecai Core Web Vitals. Just the sound of it strikes fear into the hearts of SEOs. This is most likely because it’s probably the most hyped Google algorithm update so far. The question is, should you be worried about it? How do you know if your … Read more
November 3, 2021 | Posted by Shay Harel Picture this… You’re running an SEO agency and you’ve just landed a big client. How big? We’re talking about a big franchise that has hundreds of locations country-wide. Okay, so before you break out the champagne, you might want to think about a few issues … Read more
This week in search, we covered the new April 2023 reviews update that goes beyond just product reviews. We also covered the possible impact the Google March 2023 broad core update had on local search. Google’s John Mueller said they don’t launch algorithm updates and say they got everything wrong. Google released its web spam … Read more
Embedded videos are an increasingly important part of websites. And it’s easy to see why. They add an engaging and interactive layer to all manner of page types. But there is one problem: video files are big. Particularly on lower bandwidth mobile connections, they can be very slow to load. This can be a problem … Read more
Did the Google March 2023 Broad Core Update impact local search rankings? That is the question many local SEOs are asking in the Local Search Forum. As a reminder, Google has told us that core updates can impact local search, at least sometimes. Then Danny Sullivan of Google said, “core updates can involve image results … Read more
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