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Google has confirmed a bug with some users not seeing the users and permissions in Google Search Console. There are also complaints about the performance reports being a bit delayed, which has been ongoing for some time.Performance…

According to Ahrefs, 91% of web content does not drive organic traffic from Google.That’s surprising.We also know that content marketing makes up the highest budget share for SEO experts.This means that a large portion of your content…

In a Google SEO office-hours hangout Google’s John Mueller was asked whether rel canonical or the noindex tag was the best approach for dealing with duplicate and thin content in an ecommerce site. John Mueller discussed both options and…

Yesterday, Google announced the November 2021 core update. While there’s nothing new about these periodic algorithm changes, many SEOs are wondering why Google decided to release it right before one of the busiest…

How to evaluate a site for “quality” is among the most misunderstood concepts in SEO.Getting this wrong can result in you leaving sites out that can drive ranking, or worse, including sites that will provide no value or potentially get you…

It’s impossible to identify how effectively a website or landing page addresses a searcher’s intent without a means to measure the user’s attention – or engagement.I regularly see bounce rate used as a key performance indicator (KPI) for…

Google's John Mueller was asked if it is helps after doing a big URL migration to keep the old XML Sitemap file up for a bit. John said "the effect would be minimal" by using this strategy.The theory is that if you leave the old XML…

Google has produced a new interactive SEO checklist with "specific things you can do to improve the SEO of your website." It is interactive in that you can select if you are a business owner or marketer, developer or SEO and the…

As you know, Google started to rollout the November 2021 Core Update yesterday, November 17th at around 11am ET. Below is a recap of the early chatter and data we are seeing on this update less than 24 hours after it started rolling…

Expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness (E-A-T) are important to Google. This is inarguable.In fact, E-A-T is such an essential element in how Google perceives web content that it’s mentioned 135 times in Google’s 167-page Search…