Robots.txt files help limit search engine crawler (like Googlebot) from seeing unimportant pages on your site.
Google’s new tutorial can help you identify and resolve Interaction to Next Paint (INP) issues. Google has released a video tutorial on identifying Interaction to Next Paint (INP) issues using Chrome DevTools. INP has recently replaced First Input Delay (FID) as a Core Web Vital. Follow the steps outlined in the tutorial … Read more
Are you finding that your website isn’t attracting as much traffic as you’d like? Or perhaps you’re getting visitors, but they’re not converting into customers. Maybe you’re even struggling to rank for the keywords you know are important to your business. That’s because your site is affected by SEO issues. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) involves … Read more
YouTube issued guidance to creators and marketers on the best times to upload videos for maximum reach. For news, trends, or content with a shorter lifespan, it’s best to post as soon as possible. However, if you’re sharing evergreen content, the platform suggests posting at whatever time suits you prefer. Live videos. To maximize reach … Read more
Robots.txt files help limit search engine crawler (like Googlebot) from seeing unimportant pages on your site.
The day after Google released its new search spam policies, including the March 2024 spam and core updates, Google began penalizing websites that the search company felt violated those spam policies. The result of these search penalties was that some sites were completely or partially de-listed from Google’s search results, and all or part of … Read more
Robots.txt is a useful and powerful tool to instruct search engine crawlers on how you want them to crawl your website. Managing this file is a key component of good technical SEO. It is not all-powerful – in Google’s own words, “it is not a mechanism for keeping a web page out of Google” – … Read more
According to a court filing by Google, Microsoft tried to sell Bing, its search engine, to Apple but Apple did not want it because of search quality issues and lack of investment. Plus, Microsoft pitched Apple to make Bing the default search engine but that was rejected as well. This news comes from CNBC from … Read more
Danny Sullivan, the Google Search Liaison, wrote on X, “Another thing to keep in mind is that some of the sites I’ve looked into, where someone thinks they have a helpful content issue — they’re fine.” Meaning, those sites may have seen competitors see a lift and jump up ahead of them but their traffic … Read more
Google Ads has some new bugs today, one that Google confirmed over advertisers received a notice for “confusing text” for their ads and the other not yet confirmed around advertisers being unable to update their credit cards on file. Confusing Ad Text Issue Google confirmed a bug last ***** at about 11pm ET on Monday, … Read more
This week, we covered another Google Search indexing issue, plus this ongoing issue with recipes in the Google Search results. I suspect we will soon have a very big Google Search ranking update – a storm is coming. The cache link is gone, and Google told us yesterday that the cache functionality will fully disappear … Read more