Howdy Folks, happy Friday and welcome to another week of SEO News. Let’s get it started! 15/7/2020 – Don’t block Googlebot from crawling your 404 pages. If you’ve ever wondered if serving up 404 pages to Googlebot would damage your SEO in anyways. It seems like the answer is no.  Google’s John Mueller says it’s […]

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Hey, SEO Peeps, Happy Friday! It’s time again for another roundup of this week’s SEO news updates.  Without further ado, let’s dive in.   30/6/2020 – Stock Photography is Ok for Google Search, But We Still Recommend Unique Images Google’s John Mueller was recently tagged in a question if using stock photography would hurt the website […]

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Hey SEO peeps, it’s another Friday and here’s another weekly SEO update post for you! Without further ado, let’s dive in. 26/6/2020 – Logo markup for AMP articles supports any file formats also supported by Google Images Kenichi Suzuki on Twitter noticed that the documentation for AMP’s logo markup file doesn’t seem to support .svg […]

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Hey SEO peeps, it’s Friday again and that means it is time for another week of SEO updates. I hope you guys have been enjoying them and without further ado, let’s begin! 22/6/2020 – Google How-to Schema is Now Back In May, we have spotted Google testing how to schema rich results on the desktop after […]

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Hi SEO peeps, it’s Friday again meaning it’s the day for another SEO Update post. I hope y’all’s been enjoying these updates. Now, without further ado, let’s get to the first update of the week! 13/6/2020 – Friendly reminder from Google – No, bounce rate is not a ranking factor John Mueller once again confirmed […]

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Hey SEO peeps, happy Friday! In this week’s SEO news, you will be seeing tidbits from a podcast interview between Marie Haynes and Google’s John Mueller, as well as some new features introduced by Google and Bing that can be super helpful.  Without further ado, let’s get into the gist.  5/6/2020 – Google’s featured snippet to […]

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02/06/2020 – Update to Bing Webmaster Tools Backlinks is back in the new Bing Webmaster Tools https://t.co/OiERBQYViP ! Backlinks not only for your site but also for other sites (tab Similar sites), including for sites we suggest. Have a look and give us feedback on this beta tool.— Bing Webmaster Team (@BingWMC) June 2, 2020 […]

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26/05/2020 – Is There Actually an SEO Friendly Font? This week, we have two interesting questions from a Twitter user, @johnmullerfan. The first question: Suggestions from Google on fonts? John Mueller was asked if fonts affect a website’s speed. Well, the answer from Google’s Webmaster Trends Analyst was that anything on the page affects their […]

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Hey SEO peeps, BIG NEWS this week! Google has finally completed rolling out the Google May 2020 Core Update this Monday on May 18th, 2020 which makes it a full two-week roll out since May 4th, 2020.  Here’re the Tweets from Google on when it first started rolling out and when it finished. The impact […]

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Following Google’s announcement on the new Core Web Vitals used to guide developers to create g a great web user experience, including Largest Contentful Paint, First Input Delay, and Cumulative Layout Shift.  8/5/2020 – Google debuts Web Vitals Chrome Extension This week, Addy Osmani from the Chrome team also introduced a handy extension that will make […]

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