30-second summary: There has been a gradual increase in Google’s impact of page load time on website rankings Google has introduced the three Core Web Vitals metrics as ranking factors to measure user experience The following steps can help you get a better idea of the performance of your website through multiple tests A fast ..
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Google Chrome to mark non-HTTPS sites as ‘not secure’ In 2018, Google announced it would identify all sites that had not migrated to HTTPS as “not secure” in the Chrome browser. Google had already been pushing webmasters to make the change to non-secure websites for years – including hinting at a small ranking boost to further incentivize the ..
ICYMI, Microsoft announced its new collaboration with ChatGPT during an event today. Being able to be there live at the event did have its perks. Like priority access to try out the new experience on Edge, Microsoft’s browser. Trying it out. I downloaded the Edge browser, signed in, and was given access to the new ..
Google’s introduction of Bard yesterday was huge news. But perhaps the bigger news for SEOs was the preview of Google’s generative AI search results, which featured a grand total of zero links. That’s right. Google – a search engine – no longer links to its sources. You know, websites. What do you call a search ..
Microsoft will launch a new, AI-powered search engine that people can chat with, ask questions, or even use to create content. We learned this today from Yusuf Mehdi, Corporate Vice President & Consumer Chief Marketing Officer, Microsoft today at a special Microsoft press event in Redmond, Wash. I’m live in attendance, along with Search Engine ..
Mastodon was all the craze when Elon Musk took over Twitter, but its growth has not just slowed in the past several weeks but has actually declined. The monthly active users are now at about 1.4 million after reaching 2.5 million users in November 2022. The growth and decline. Wired published a great chart showing ..
If you see “Discovered – currently not indexed” in Google Search Console, it means Google is aware of the URL, but hasn’t crawled and indexed it yet. It doesn’t necessarily mean the page will never be processed. As their documentation says, they may come back to it later without any extra effort on your part. ..
Google will be removing the podcast carousel fully from Google Search on February 13, 2023. There is a notice in the Google Podcast Manager about the podcast carousel going away. The notice. The notice reads, “Note: Google Search will stop showing podcast carousels by February 13. As a result, clicks and impressions in How people ..
Noogler: SEO is spam, ads help you rank In 2012, a Googler made headlines when he said “SEO isn’t good for users or the Internet at large,” and “It’s a bug that you could rank highly in Google without buying ads, and Google is trying to fix the bug.” Was it Matt Cutts, John Mueller, ..
Google is now testing Bard, its answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. We also have gotten our first look at AI-powered features in Google Search. Google CEO Sundar Pichai today announced the soft launch of Bard to a set “trusted testers,” showcasing what this early experimental release looks like with some examples. We knew this was coming ..
