Microsoft Bing will soon rely a lot more on the date you specify in the lastmod field within your XML sitemap for crawling. Fabrice Canel, Principal Product Manager at Microsoft Bing said that starting in June 2023, Bing will revamp its “crawl scheduling stack to better utilize the information provided by the “lastmod” tag in ..
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Internal linking is a crucial aspect of any website, but it is especially important for ecommerce websites. Internal linking helps improve the navigation and user experience for your website visitors and can also help improve your website’s search engine optimization (SEO). This article will discuss the best practices for internally linking pages on ecommerce websites. ..
Google releases URL Inspection Tool API In 2022, Google released a new API under the Search Console APIs for the URL Inspection Tool. The new URL Inspection API let you programmatically access the data and reporting you’d get from the URL Inspection Tool but through software. Google’s URL Inspection Tool API had a limit of 2,000 ..
“Fragments” of Yandex’s codebase leaked online last week. Much like Google, Yandex is a platform with many aspects such as email, maps, a taxi service, etc. The code leak featured chunks of all of it. According to the documentation therein, Yandex’s codebase was folded into one large repository called Arcadia in 2013. The leaked codebase ..
First Microsoft Bing. Then Google. Now Baidu is reportedly planning on bringing ChatGPT-style AI to its search results. Why we care. All the major search engines are seemingly in an arms race to add AI chat to search. Once search engines eventually add the chat features to search, it could have major implications for publishers ..
Creating content to satisfy long-tail search queries is an often-overlooked strategy. It’s easy to go after bigger wins, but focusing on the smaller gains can lead to powerful long-term results. Many times in SEO, slow and steady wins the race. Search has been evolving and talking about keywords might seem old-fashioned. But long-tail queries have ..
One of the most popular formats for written online content is the humble listicle. 55% of bloggers say they’ve published a listicle in the last 12 months (only how-to articles rank higher). But this popularity exists precisely because people love to read lists. We love clicking on list headlines because they’re incredibly specific and set ..
Analytics firm Jumpshot shuts down In 2020, following critical articles about its data collection and sales practices, analytics firm Jumpshot was shut down by its parent company Avast. Jumpshot was made famous within the SEO industry by SparkToro founder Rand Fishkin’s (heavily criticized and widely circulated) zero-click analysis and presentations. Articles from Vice, PC Mag and Motherboard claimed that Avast and ..
Google penalizes French link network In 2014, Google’s Matt Cutts tweeted, “Today we’re taking action on a French link network that violates our quality guidelines (Buzzea).” Buzzea was less than thrilled about being called a link network, saying they “oppose this assertion since we never stopped wanting to keep the ethical side of sponsored articles ..
Google begins experimenting with featured snippets in 2014, Google started answering complex questions at the top of its search results with detailed responses (or answers) taken from websites. Does that sound like featured snippets? It should. Because it was. We know from Google that featured snippets were introduced in January 2014. We don’t know the ..
