Google’s pursuit of speed has led it to use Service Workers to make some repeated searches twice as fast. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Before a page can rank well, it needs to be crawled and indexed. Contributor Manish Dudharejia shares five tips to give your pages the best chance of getting indexed in the search results

Here are five ways Facebook still gives you a marketing advantage at every stage of the sales funnel. The post Top 5 Advantages of Facebook Marketing for Your Business by @osbennn appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Posted by Tom.Capper By now, you’ve probably heard as much as you can bear about mobile first indexing. For me, there’s been one topic that’s been conspicuously missing from all this discussion, though, and that’s the impact on internal linking and previous internal linking best practices. In the past, there have been a few popular methods for providing crawl paths for search engines — bulky main navigations, HTML sitemap-style pages that exist purely for internal linking, or blocks of links at the bottom of indexed pages.

Google has updated their search settings page sometime in the past 12 hours or so. With that change, Google removed the option to change the number of results displayed on the page and seems to have added a handwriting option

Google’s John Mueller said that Google will convert PDF documents, as well as other documents, from their original form and into HTML in order to better index those documents.

Yesterday we reported that the Google Search Settings page updated and removed the setting to define how many search results you want to see on a page. Well, it looks like the search settings page has been put back – Google reverted the change. At least for now

Twitter gave users a sneak peek at some changes that are in the works, including comment threads an online indicators. The post Twitter Tests Threaded Replies and Online Status Indicators by @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .