The company is seeking more SMB engagement by making updates easier and more accessible. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

A new Shopify Web Vitals app was announced. Shopify merchants can begin optimizing for fast web page speeds direct from their dashboard

New WordPress feature improves the security of WordPress Auto-updates by blocking compromised plugins from updating. The post Hidden WordPress 5.5 Feature Blocks Rogue Plugins via @martinibuster appeared first on Search Engine Journal

It looks like Google is expanding on its local listing reviews for service level businesses. Amy Toman posted a screen shot showing how when she selected five stars to give to a power washing company, Google then asked her if she used the business and which services did they provide

LinkedIn is selling SlideShare to Scribd, a digital library leader for books, audiobooks, and other professional works. The post LinkedIn Sells SlideShare to Scribd via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google Merchant Center added a new technical attribute you can use to exclude some or all of your products from displaying in specific countries. The new attribute is shopping_ads_excluded_country and you can use it in your product feeds to communicate to Google to not show these products in specific countries.

Posted by cheryldraper This year’s MozCon was unlike any other. In the midst of a global pandemic, we pivoted from planning our traditional 1,600-plus in-person shindig to an online conference that ended up bigger and more well-attended than anything we’d done before.

Facebook users are seeing a new notification screen when sharing COVID-19 links, warning them the content may be old or inaccurate.

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…