Google’s Search Central team has released a new video in its “SEO Made Easy” series. In it, Search Advocate Martin Splitt addresses common concerns about duplicate content and provides practical solutions for website owners. Key Takeaways Despite concerns in the SEO community, Google insists that duplicate content doesn’t harm a site’s perceived quality. Splitt states: … Read more
Google’s Lighthouse doesn’t use the Interaction to Next Paint (INP) metric in its standard tests, despite INP being one of the Core Web Vitals. Barry Pollard, Web Performance Developer Advocate on Google Chrome, explained the reasoning behind this and offered insights into measuring INP. Lighthouse Measures Page Loads, Not Interactions Lighthouse measures a simple page … Read more
Great ad copy is crucial for Google Ads success, but the rules of engagement can be elusive. Optmyzr analyzed over 1 million ads, providing fresh insights into what drives performance. Why we care. Having a solid ad copy strategy as a PPC expert is crucial. However experts of many years are still struggling to assess … Read more
Guest posts are among the first methods people hear about when learning about link building. There are definitely wrong ways to do guest posting. But if done right, guest posts can also provide opportunities to get some fast wins for websites. Why guest posting is still a worthwhile topic Before we dive in, I want … Read more
With Google’s antitrust jury trial underway, Google claimed the U.S. Department of Justice has a “narrow view” of the ad tech market and that advertisers and publishers have many alternatives. However, the evidence suggests otherwise. Google’s misleading claim of “hundreds of competitors.” While many ad tech providers exist, Google dominates key market segments such as … Read more
John Mueller from Google in the latest SEO office hours said that Google, Googlebot, does not generally try variations of URLs to see if they work. So if you have a URL like domain.com/pagegoeshere1/, Google won’t try domain.com/pagegoeshere2/ to just try it out of curiosity. To be fair, this is not new, I covered the … Read more
A negative SEO question came up in the last Google SEO office hours on the topic of sending “bad actor” fake traffic to a site, to make the destination site look more questionable in Google’s eyes. Martin Splitt from Google said that sending such traffic to a site would not negatively impact the destination site. … Read more
There has been some confusion around how Google handles pages that might be more costly for Google Search to crawl, render, index and serve – i.e. JavaScript pages. Google does not have a monetary budget per site, in terms of it will spend $X of crawling budget on your site. Yes, sites do have a … Read more
Google’s Gary Illyes answered a question about negative SEO provides useful insights into the technical details of how Google prevents low quality spam links from affecting normal websites. The answer about negative SEO was given in an interview in May and has gone unnoticed until now. Negative SEO Negative SEO is the practice of sabotaging … Read more
Now that Google is encouraging publishers to use proper lastmod dates in their sitemap files, what happens if your lastmod **** is incorrect and shows the wrong ****. Gary Illyes from Google said either Google trusts your lastmod **** or doesn’t, there is no in between. As a reminder, Google (and Bing) recommended sites upgrade … Read more
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