There is a new report out that says menu items and how busy you are during Google Maps popular times are both ranking factors and signals for Google’s local ranking system. Claudia Tomina posted the details on her blog and told me she tested this across numerous businesses. Claudia also sent me a few examples … Read more
Navigating the world of Instagram posting involves many considerations, but one crucial aspect is timing your content correctly. The impact of posting at the wrong time can mean all the effort spent creating captivating content might just end up unnoticed in a low-activity period, yielding minimal engagement. Timing your Instagram Stories, Reels, feed posts, and … Read more
Google has to crawl the web to build its index for it to provide search results. And since webpages and documents get updated, Google needs to recrawl those URLs from time to time. Google will recrawl URLs at different rates, said John Mueller of Google. John Mueller wrote on X, “Search engines recrawl URLs at … Read more
WordPress released an official plugin that adds support for a cutting edge technology called speculative loading that can help boost site performance and improve the user experience for site visitors. Speculative Loading Speculative loading is a technique that fetches pages or resources before a user clicks a link to navigate to another webpage. The official … Read more
Will Critchlow is the CEO of SearchPilot, an SEO A/B testing company. I invited Will back to Experts on the Wire to discuss the Future of SEO. I feel like things have felt very turbulent and uncertain in the SEO world lately (more than usual!) – because of things like AI/Chat-GPT, changes in how the … Read more
Google will change how it estimates its delivery times through Google Merchant Center. Starting on April 9, Google will look at minimum [min_handling_time]and maximum [max_handling_time] attributes for processing time in your product data for Shopping ads and free listings. “This will allow you to provide more accurate estimated delivery times to customers on Google,” Google … Read more
Google announced a Merchant Center processing update designed to help brands offer customers more precise estimated delivery times. Starting April 9, Google will leverage the minimum and maximum attributes for processing time within your product data for both Shopping ads and free listings. Why we care. The timing of deliveries plays a crucial role in … Read more
In 2022, Google brought back the Shabbat times to the one box or answer boxes in search. Recently, in the past month or so, Google also enabled Google Assistant to tell you when Shabbat starts and ends in a location. So if you ask the Google Assistant, “What time is Shabbat in [location] at [time],” … Read more
With the holiday season fast approaching, Google has released data to help people navigate traffic and crowds more efficiently. Analyzing trends from last year’s holidays, Google published a blog post highlighting the optimal times to travel, shop, and run errands. “Whether you’re hitting the road early or heading out on Thanksgiving day, we looked at … Read more
According to an announcement by Google, optimizations related to Core Web Vitals (CWV) have saved Chrome users more than 10,000 years in page load time in 2023. CWV are a set of metrics developed by Google to quantify the user experience on web pages. The three key metrics are Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), which measures … Read more
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