Within the Google Search Console, there is the ability to Fetch as Google and then submit the URL you fetched to the Google index for possible inclusion. In that submit feature, Google used to show how many URL submissions remained from a monthly quota. That limit notification no longer appears in the Search Console interface, […]
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Google has updated its article schema document for AMP articles to require larger images in your markup. Previously, the minimum requirement for your image sizes was 696 pixels wide and 300,000 pixels in total, but now it is 1,200 pixels wide and 800,000 pixels in total. This is specific to the markup you use for
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ouh_desire / Shutterstock.com Google has quietly dropped the tappable shortcuts feature the company released just about a year ago in the Google search app. That feature aimed at giving you a quick way to access Google features without having to search for them. Andy B. from the Google Search & Assistant team wrote in a
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“Does technical SEO even matter anymore?” “If I just write a lot of content, I’ll drive traffic right?” “Is keyword research even worth the investment?” These are common questions I am asked and see asked across the web all the time. In an era that has proclaimed the death of search engine optimization (SEO) nearly
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Google has officially announced the full roll out of the new beta version of the Google Search Console on the Webmaster blog. As we reported, the beta had reached nearly everyone as of a couple of weeks ago. “We are happy to announce that the new Search Console is now available to all sites,” Google wrote on its
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Webmasters, web developers and SEOs are getting a new feature in the widely used website auditing tool Lighthouse. Google announced today the addition of an “SEO Audits” category to the Chrome extension. You can access the new audit category via the “Options” button in the extension. By no means a replacement for a comprehensive SEO
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The rise of mobile search has led to many changes in SEO, but none more dramatic than the area of local search. By now, most of us are familiar with the Google update known as Pigeon. Launched in 2014, it allowed greater search visibility for local directories, which helped local search engine optimization (SEO) establish
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In response to questions raised in the community, here’s clarification about how indexing is impacted by the Google Page Speed Update. The post Google’s Page Speed Update does not impact indexing appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article. Source link
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Google has published one of the most comprehensive explanations yet of their featured snippets in a post on the search blog. Featured snippets, in short, are the quick direct answers you see at the top of the Google search results page that appear in response to some search queries. In this blog post, Google explains what
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