Fire at an OVH Data Center in Europe takes down thousands of sites, including WP Rocket and Imagify The post OVH Data Center Fire Darkens Popular Sites Worldwide via @martinibuster appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google announced that its PageSpeed Insights tool as of March 3, 2021 uses http/2 to make network requests, that is if the server supports it. If your site is on HTPT/2, you may see your PageSpeed Insights scores go up as a result.

A couple of weeks ago we reported a steep dive in the number of featured snippets Google showed in its search results.

WordPress 5.7 “Esperanza” is now available, which allows site owners to convert from HTTP to HTTPS with a single click. The post WordPress 5.7 Launches With One-Click HTTP to HTTPS Conversion via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Posted by Moberstein I’m completely fascinated by Google’s Discover Feed. Besides the fact that it serves highly-relevant content, it also seems beyond the reach of being gamed

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

Google uses a predictive method to detect duplicate content based on URL patterns, which could lead to pages being incorrectly identified as duplicates.

Google’s John Mueller asked if it would help if a site timestamped its content and pages using blockchain. John responded “Google doesn’t use that.” In short, he said Google does not use blockchain for search.

Google’s Core Web Vitals testing tools take 28 days to gather aggregate field data, and that likely won’t change any time soon. The post Google: No Plans to Speed Up Data Collection For Core Web Vitals via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .