I don’t know where these rumors come from and how they persist but just like we reported in April and May, Google has not slowed crawling or indexing to save money and resources during the pandemic.

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

Posted by ryanmoothart Our world changed dramatically in March of 2020 as a new viral threat to our livelihoods took hold in the United States and around the world. Here in the US (at the time of writing this post), COVID-19 has not relented Some industries have been more heavily affected than others.

It looks like there is a big Google search ranking algorithm rolling out now, on August 10th. This is not a confirmed update by Google, at least not yet

John Mueller from Google said he does not believe that an image that is licensed and copyrighted would rank better in search because it has a copyright label on it.

Site owners can now use Google’s Rich Results Test tool to validate their ‘article’ structured data markup.

Google is holding a virtual conference later this month for the first time in the company’s history. Registrations are open until August 19th.

Join this webinar and learn three tactics that can help your SaaS brand become more discoverable and exponentially grow qualified lead volume.

The other day I reported that Google said the order of your header tags and elements do not matter for SEO purposes. Then a bunch of SEOs say but Google’s Lighthouse tool gives you warnings when your headers are out of order. So Patrick Hulce, the former Google engineer who worked on Lighthouse said the header suggestion is in the “audit in the accessibility category, we don’t tell you to do it for SEO reasons.”

Google keeps upgrading this tool to add more and more structured data support.