Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…

Facebook is reportedly planning to bring Instagram Reels, a direct competitor to TikTok, to the US in August. The post Instagram to Launch a TikTok Competitor in the US Next Month via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

John Mueller of Google said it is a good idea to remove the URLs of pages you remove from your web site from your XML Sitemap file. He said “if you remove or change a lot of pages on your site, it’s good to reflect that in a sitemap file.”

Google prefers ranking content from YouTube over other video sources, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal. The post Google Search Allegedly Boosts YouTube Results Ahead of Competitors via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google goes in depth on crawl budget, answering some of the most common SEO-related questions in the latest episode of SEO Mythbusting. The post Google SEO 101: Website Crawl Budget Explained via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

The updated doc has guidance around article titles, enabling high-quality large images and having timely, engaging content.

Want better SEO results for the lowest possible cost? Here are the 109 best free SEO tools you can find. The post The Top 109 Free SEO Tools You Should Be Using via @jonleeclark appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google’s John Mueller, Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt released another podcast this morning.

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The upfront prep work you need to do when working with contract content writers. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.