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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01/05/2020 – Schema.org Version 8.0 Schema.org 8.0 was officially released this week. Basically, there are a few new markups for education, shipping, and job posting. Here’s the official description shared by schema.org.  Schema.org Version 8.0 05/05/2020 – More Local Content in Google’s Top Stories Box Google’s announcement on Twitter On Twitter, Google SearchLiaison shared that […]

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Hi SEO peeps, this is another week of SEO news and updates. This week the focus is on Google as it is spotted making several tests to its SERPs and also an announcement regarding GSC.  Without further ado, let’s dive in! 28/04/2020 – Google Search Console is Tracking Fewer Pages for Reporting Google announced the […]

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15/04/2020 – What Happens if You Opt-Out of Featured Snippet? The team at Moz published a case study on opting-out from the featured snippet. This is a pretty good and meaningful experiment to carry out.  To opt-out of featured snippets, they used Google’s data-nosnippet tag. Moz ranking number second after opting out. They lost their […]

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07/04/2020 – Crawling and Coronavirus Last week, John Mueller was asked whether the crawling is throttled since the coronavirus outbreak.  John Mueller responded that crawling is not affected by this, but he mentioned that for some sites, he believes there will be lesser crawling because they’re more overloaded. But, John Mueller said that this is […]

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Hi, SEO peeps and welcome to another week of SEO updates! This week we will keep you updated on the recent search news on coronavirus, as well as spill the tea on a piece of interesting news related to Google algorithms.  Without further ado, let’s dive into it.  7/4/2020 – Google Answers Does Search Behavior […]

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Hi, again folks! In this week’s news update, we are seeing a few Google Announcements and news/advice related to the Coronavirus. Let’s dive into it.  19/03/2020 – Easier resubmissions and appeals of ad policy issues Google’s Announcement On the 19th of March 2020, Google announced a new way to appeal to policy issues within Google […]

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Hi folks, in this week’s SEO news updates, we are spotting a few Google announcements and updates.  Without further ado, let’s get to it.  19/3/2020 – Minute Difference of Speed May Be Decisive in Search Ranking?  Google’s John Mueller said in a webmaster hangout earlier this week that Google will be looking at speed metrics […]

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