John Mueller says keyword-based domains are limiting and provide no SEO bonus. He then offered ideas for the best domains Google’s John Mueller answered a question on Reddit about ranking benefits of using the keywords in the domain name. Mueller confirmed that there’s no SEO bonus for keywords in the domain and listed reasons why […]

Google explains how its AI systems work to understand human language and return relevant search results. Google Search is capable of understanding human language with the assistance of multiple AI models that all work together to find the most relevant results. Information about how these AI models work is explained in simple terms by Pandu […]

Content that appears in the first slot of the Top Stories section may be deduplicated from the main results if the Top Stories box appears before the main results. Google will deduplicate a link from its main web results if that same link appears in the first Top Stories slot, so long as the Top […]

Microsoft Bing has released a plugin for WordPress to let you easily integrate the IndexNow protocol on your WordPress site. Microsoft Bing has published a new WordPress plugin that makes it easy to integrate your WordPress blog and site with the IndexNow protocol. The plugin was released over the holidays and is available over here in the WordPress […]

Google confirms changes to the local search algorithm recently rolled out, which it’s calling the November 2021 local search update. Google confirms an algorithm update began rolling out to local search results at the end of November and concluded on December 8. This update involved a “rebalancing” of ranking factors Google considers when generating local […]

Google is developing a new responsiveness metric that could be a replacement for First Input Delay In a recent HTTPArchive Almanac article about CMS use worldwide, the author mentioned that all platforms score great on the First Input Delay (FID), a Core Web Vitals metric and that Google is working on a new metric, which […]

Google’s John Mueller answers question about 65 character limit on title tags for SEO and if it’s ranking related Google’s John Mueller answered a question in a recent Google SEO Office-hours hangout about what the ideal length for a title tag is for SEO and ranking purposes. The person asking the question was concerned because […]

Google’s John Mueller says fixing technical issues and disavowing random spam links won’t fix core update related ranking problems Google’s John Mueller answered a question in the SEO Office-hours hangout about recovering from a core algorithm update. His main point was to rule out random spammy backlinks or technical issues as reasons why a site […]

Google’s Martin Splitt explains Google’s indexing process from discovery to ranking and where rendering fits into that queue How a website renders is a part of the indexing queue and like the other parts has an impact on SEO and ranking. Google’s Martin Splitt explained in a webinar hosted by Duda how rendering impacts SEO and what the […]

Microsoft has published a second release candidate for its upcoming .NET 6 software development platform. The “go live” release candidate, .NET 6 RC2, was published October 12. RC2 has been tested on, and is supported on, Visual Studio 2022 Preview 5. The new release candidate can be downloaded from dotnet.microsoft.com. A bulletin on RC2 cites planned .NET 6 capabilities […]