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Topic: Webmaster
This day in search marketing history: March 7
Landing page load time added to Google Quality Score, plus: Broad Core Algorithm Updates, bogus Domain Authority pitches, and more.
This day in search marketing history: March 5
Google confirms Vince Update, plus: mobile-first indexing, webspam, Google adds page load time to Quality Score algorithm and more.
This day in search marketing history: February 16
Google says avoid link building, plus: Conductor buys ContentKing, Google shows less than 10 results, Forbes paid links, and more.
Bing Webmaster Guidelines updated for “conversation mode” and AI
Bing also updated the answers section to incorporate the new AI version of Bing Search.
This day in search marketing history: January 14
What happened when we turned off AMP, plus: Shopify's chat bug, comment spam, mobile first, missing tweets and more.
Google December 2022 link spam update done rolling out
That's a wrap, the second Google algorithm update this month is done rolling out.
Google is testing new Rewarded Ad Gate beta program for publishers
The program will give publishers an opportunity to monetize their most engaged users.
Changing URLs for SEO reasons: When is it OK?
Google’s John Mueller warns not to change URLs for SEO reasons. Is he right? It depends, of course. Here are some exceptions.
Google penalties, manual actions and notifications: A complete guide
Learn all about on-page and off-page guideline violations, what Google's messaging means, and how to get a Google manual penalty removed.
Google replaces its Webmaster Guidelines with Google Search Essentials
Google has done a full refresh of its old Webmaster Guidelines, simplifying them and removing the term "webmaster."
To disavow or not? Getting it right, 10 years later.
Determine whether a link disavow is needed and avoid costly mistakes.
Bing content submission API now available to all
Now you can push your content and HTML directly to Bing Search without the need for crawling.
Google Search Console API gains fresh data & more
Not only can you get fresher data via the API, you can also manage your domain properties and more.
Beyond the relaunch: Evolve your web strategy toward regular iterations
Pantheon's Josh Koenig makes the case for a new product-oriented way to think about your web communications.
301 redirect: Google Webmasters Central to Google Search Central
Five years in the making, the Webmasters Central brand gets retired.
Google says you can recover from core updates without a new core update
Unlike the old Panda or Penguin updates, Google core updates get refreshed data regularly.
A deeper dive into more of the Bing Search ranking factors
Why author and site reputation, completeness of content, transparency of authorship and negativity are important to watch.
Google updates Search Console API infrastructure
The API is backward compatible and there are currently no changes in scope or functionality.
10 Common SEO Myths
Contributed by Anh Luu, Copywriter for Phonexa Some SEO Myths are harmless and do little to take away from your overall performance, while other myths can actually harm your productivity over time. You’ve probably come across some of these myths during your research on SEO and have thought of them as true. Well, it’s a […]
Bing Webmaster Tools gets a new robots.txt tester
Here is another tool you can use from Bing to see how BingBot can or cannot access your web pages.
Google updated guidelines to say spam reports are not for manual actions
Google only uses spam reports to improve its spam prevention algorithms.
Bing supports rel=sponsored & rel=ugc
You can use the rel="nofollow" or rel="sponsored" or rel="ugc" attributes, to "prevent the links from being followed by a crawler and from potentially impacting search rankings.
Bing’s search ranking factors; relevance, quality & credibility, user engagement, freshness, location and page load time
Want to know how Bing ranks web pages? Here is how Bing describes it within its own guidelines.
What 20 years of Google algorithm updates say about what SEOs should focus on next
More than a history lesson: How to prepare for the next big Google update.
Bing adds snippet controls to help sites control their search result previews
Google began supporting these new controls last September and now Bing adds control for snippets.
Bing announces refreshed Bing Webmaster Tools
In the coming weeks, a new Bing Webmaster Tools will make for a faster, cleaner, responsive and actionable toolset for SEOs and webmasters.
Google Search Console launches new removals tool
The new tool temporarily block URLs from showing in Google, it shows outdated content and content filtered by SafeSearch.
Google Rich Results testing tool now reports on unloadable embedded resources
Google's rich result test tool can now show external elements included by a page.
Google starts new Search Console training series on YouTube
Daniel Waisberg from Google has started a new video series to help you learn how to get the most out of Search Console.
Google readies new markup rules for European news publishers
The approach is a reaction to the EU Copyright Directive, to avoid paying licensing fees.
Google Search Console adds Change of Address tool to new interface
The change of address tool should be around for the foreseeable future.
Google’s new snippet settings give webmasters control over their search listings display
Google adds max-snippet, max-video-preview, max-image-preview and more to the nosnippet snippet controls
The line between subdomain leasing and alternative revenue strategy
How search engines handle subdomain leasing may carry implications for all businesses.
Google is aware of sites hosted on another’s subdomain
It’s improving its systems to recognize such content and treat it accordingly.
Google to stop supporting noindex directive in robots.txt
Changes are coming to how Google understands some of the unsupported directives in your robots.txt file.
Bing now supports batch mode for submitting URLs to Bing
You can now use a single Bing API request to submit up to 500 URLs, instead of making 500 individual API requests.
Google has fixed the indexing issue from Thursday night
2.5 days after Google's new indexing bug, Google has confirmed the issue was fully resolved today.
Google to add support for higher quality images in search, swipe up images & 3D images
Google Images is often overlooked, but it can be a great source of traffic. Here are some new features coming to image search you should pay attention to.
Google launches new video series: SEO Mythbusting
The new video series from the Google Webmaster Trends Analyst team aims to clarify common misconceptions and answer pressing questions on SEO topics.