Google has renamed the Product Sites search filter to Product Websites. These only really show up in the European regions and starting last week, Google renamed “Sites” to “Websites.” This change was spotted by Brodie Clark who posted on X saying, “Google has now altered the naming of the UK/European menu item from ‘Product Sites’ … Read more
Want to scare an SEO? Just tell them they need to manage a site migration. Want to make an SEO faint? Tell them they need to manage to split a site into two or more sites while merging content on those sites. John Mueller from Google said it takes Google longer to process site splits … Read more
Google’s John Mueller answered whether having two sites could negatively affect search rankings. His answer is surprisingly applicable to different ways of interpreting the question. Can Having Two Sites Affect Rankings? A person submitted a question to Google where they wanted to know if having two sites could negatively affect their rankings. The question as … Read more
WordPress security scanner WPScan’s 2024 WordPress vulnerability report calls attention to WordPress vulnerability trends and suggests the kinds of things website publishers (and SEOs) should be looking out for. Some of the key findings from the report were that just over 20% of vulnerabilities were rated as high or critical level threats, with medium severity … Read more
Google has announced improvements to its Interaction to Next Paint (INP) metric for websites using popular consent management platforms (CMPs). Google made this possible by working directly with platforms like OneTrust, Complianz, and Axeptio. Barry Pollard, a Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) team member, announced the initiative in a recent post on the CrUX Announcements … Read more
Google’s John Mueller answered a question about whether the March Core Update was finished and whether it’s okay to begin fixing things in response to the update. Core Update Question On Reddit The person asking the question wanted to know if the core update was finished because they’ve experienced a 60% loss in traffic and … Read more
Yesterday we reported Google is testing products and products sites in the search bar tab in the European regions. Today, Google is testing places and places sites in the search bar tab in the European regions. Here is a screenshot of the search bar from Frank Standtmann on Mastodon who wrote, “Google seems to be … Read more
Google is now testing placing “product sites” as its own search bar filter tab in the search results. Also, Google is testing replacing “Shopping” with “Products” in that search bar. This was spotted by Shameem Adhikarath on X – he shared a video but here is a screenshot from that video: We first saw a … Read more
While honest websites experienced the ups and downs of Google’s March 2024 update, SEOs and recipe bloggers noticed AI spam sites surging to the top of search results. One example as of yesterday ranked for over 217K queries, 14.9K of which rank in the top 10 – and that number has increased a day later. … Read more
The days after the Google March 2024 spam and core updates were released, Google issued tons of manual actions. They were mostly pure spam manual actions that resulted in all or parts of a website being deindexed for violating Google’s search spam policies, as Google calls it. Most, if not all, of those sites that … Read more
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