Google has replaced First Input Delay (FID) with a new Core Web Vitals metric called Interaction to Next Paint (INP). This change aims to better measure a website’s responsiveness and overall user experience. This article explains what INP is, why it has replaced FID, how to check your site’s INP score, and various techniques to … Read more
Reading Time: 11 minutes As the predominant web crawler accounting for nearly 29% of bot hits, Googlebot plays a crucial role in determining how users access information online. By continuously scanning over millions of domains, Googlebot helps Google’s algorithms understand the vast landscape of the internet and maintain its dominance in search with over 92% … Read more
When it comes to crawl budget and Google not crawling your site too much or too little, Google takes into account all Googlebot activity across all verticals. So that includes crawling for web search, Merchant Center, ads, and all the various crawling activities. Google’s John Mueller was asked by Christian Radny, “Does merchant center crawling … Read more
Google’s Gary Illyes answered if switching web hosting platforms could result in a negative outcome for rankings and SEO. It’s a reasonable question because migrating a site to a new web host involves multiple technical factors that can go wrong and have an immediately negative effect. What Does Changing A Website Host Entail? Changing web … Read more
In website design, two major factors drive nearly every decision: search engine optimization (SEO) and user experience. The difficulty comes from achieving the right balance between both. If you want your website to rank well on search engines like Google, you’ll need an SEO-friendly website with keyword-rich content, optimized metadata, and high-authority backlinks. But if … Read more
Reading Time: 7 minutes According to Ahrefs, about 73% of readers skim web content, and only 27% read it fully. You’ll need to master web content writing if you not only want to increase the time a user spends on your website, but also want to see them take impactful actions on your website that … Read more
John Mueller from Google said that ranking well in the Google Shopping or Google Image vertical boxes does not impact your ranking in the core web results. He said, “I can’t imagine that they’d be connected” when asked about how ranking well in the Merchant Center results can impact the web results. Christian Radny asked: … Read more
Bing is testing showing what Google calls from sources across the web in its Bing Search results. Bing shows a listing of the various options based on your query and says it was “generated using AI.” Here is a screenshot of this from Khushal Bherwani as he posted on X: Here is the Google version … Read more
Google has posted yet another reporting and data logging issue with Google Search Console. This one occurred between March 28, 2024 through April 2, 2024 and impacted reporting on AMP pages and Web Stories in Google Images. This was just a reporting issue and did not impact real traffic. Google wrote, “A logging error prevented … Read more
In February, Google told us they stopped showing Web Stories in Google Image search results. Well, last *****, Google issued a correction saying Google has been showing Web Stories in Google Images but the Web Stories icon does not show. To make things worse, Search Console had a bug where it was not reporting these … Read more
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