We’re in the middle of Fall in the Northern Hemisphere, making it the perfect time to share a quick recap of the latest features and improvements we’ve rolled out over the past few months. Let’s dive into what’s new and how these updates will elevate your experience with SERPed. Dashboard New Dashboard Widgets We added … Read more
Google posted a new “Search Off The Record” podcast yesterday on the topic of crawling where John Mueller, Lizzi Sassman, and Gary Illyes spoke about how Google crawls, some ideas on how to make crawling more efficient and some misconceptions around crawl frequency and site quality. I don’t think anything in this podcast is particularly … Read more
Google’s John Mueller was asked when can a site expect to recover from the September 2023 helpful content update, assuming the site took all measures to “fix” their site. John Mueller said you can assume “bigger changes would be visible when the next core updates happen.” This came up on X: Question: Assuming a site … Read more
As we draw closer to the end of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s time for us to give you a quick recap of all the new features and improvements released over the past few months. Let’s take a closer look at what’s new and how these updates will enhance your experience with SERPed. But … Read more
Continuing the theme of optimization and refinements, our Yoast SEO 22.5 release includes general maintenance updates across the plugin. We also improved guidance around best practices for taxonomies and a more effortless user experience overall. Fine-tuning for taxonomy pages If, like us, you get a real sense of achievement every time you see one of … Read more
In a recent episode of Google’s Search Off the Record podcast, John Mueller, a Search Advocate at Google, cautioned site owners against overly fixating on incremental improvements to their Core Web Vitals scores. Mueller suggested that these minor optimizations may yield few visible search ranking changes. Core Web Vitals, a set of user-centric metrics measuring … Read more
For the original iTunes version, click here. This week we covered a new possible Google search ranking update that started brewing on Wednesday, February 7. Google’s Danny Sullivan said again, search quality improvements are coming in the near future. Google said it will clarify E-E-A-T and its search quality raters. Google explained the differences … Read more
For the past few months now, Google has been saying there are big improvements coming to address some of the search quality issues we’ve all been seeing in the Google Search results. Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liason, wrote yesterday that these improvements “are on the way in the near future.” Lily Ray spotted some concerning … Read more
Google Ads has confirmed that support is not being phased out. With the introduction of a paid support service in August, concerns arose among advertisers about the potential withdrawal of the free feature. The perceived decline in customer experience further fuelled the belief that the free support might no longer be a priority. However, Google … Read more
We are happy to announce the release of the latest version of Yoast SEO. This update focuses on enhancing performance, fixing bugs, and improving our features. Don’t forget to check out our recently launched generative AI feature! Here’s Yoast SEO 21.3. Performance enhancements By design, Yoast SEO stores image metadata for every post upon saving, … Read more
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