Google’s Gary Illyes posted on Twitter this morning that he updated the crawl budget post from January 2017 to explicitly say that AJAX (i.e. XHR) calls were added to the list of things that will consume your site’s crawl budget

Byte, a reboot of Vine from the same creator, has sent out the first 100 invites to its closed beta. The post Byte, the Follow-Up to Vine, Begins Sending Out Beta Invites by @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Facebook is expanding 3D photos to stories and offering two new ways to create them.

A study from Microsoft on consumer adoption of voice technology in 2019 shows that most people are using voice search. The post 72% of People Have Used Voice Search Through a Digital Assistant in 2019 by @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal

A Facebook-commissioned study of 21,000 Instagram users reveals how they interact with brands and the impact it has on sales. The post 54% of Users Have Bought a Product Right After Seeing it on Instagram by @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that the nofollow link attribute has been and still is working fairly well. He added hasn’t “seen many cases of sites causing themselves significant issues, or of pages not getting credit in quite some time.”

Instagram is considering hiding like counts on posts to reduce the sense of competition amongst users.

You’ve seen the Google local services ads before, they have the Google Guarantee label on them. But when the Google Assistant started showing ads, people asked how does one not pay to show up in the local listings if you need the guarantee label but those come from local services ads.

Are poorly structured internal links hurting your site’s performance.