This week’s Ask An SEO question comes from Nazim from Islamabad, who asks: “I have a price comparison/aggregator website with my country’s domain. I want to ask what type of backlinks/guests posts should I have (local/international). Also, I should build backlinks to my homepage or category/individual pages, too? Besides are (name removed) and (name removed) … 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 Ads is no longer maintaining individual and ad group keyword forecasting in Keyword Planner. Few advertisers were using these features so the platform decided to retire them, according to Ginny Marvin, Google’s Ad Liaison, on X (formerly known as Twitter). However, campaign-level forecasts and historical keyword-level data are still available. Why we care. By … Read more
Google’s Ad Liaison, Ginny Marvin, confirmed on X that Google Ads has stopped maintaining the Keyword Planner individual & ad group keyword forecasting data. She said that “few advertising were using” them, so they stopped forecasting this data as of the summer. I am not sure if this is old news or not, at least, … Read more
YouTube is binning individual ad controls for newly uploaded videos in November for the following ad types: Pre-roll Post-roll Skippable Non-skippable Moving forward, creators will only be able to decide between displaying ads before or after a video, and whether to have this option on or off. If they turn this option on, YouTube will … Read more
The key to your SEO success is publishing authentic content and thinking about ranking in terms of concepts, rather than individual signals. That’s according to Googlers Martin Splitt, John Mueller and Danny Sullivan in the latest Search Off the Record episode. The group discussed ranking updates and systems, content, the importance of user-centricity and more. … Read more
Google has updated the Googlebot help document on crawling to clarify that the 15MB fetch size limit applies to each fetch of the individual subresources referenced in the HTML as well, such as JavaScript and CSS files. Google initially added information about this 15MB limit several months ago, which caused a lot of concern in … Read more
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