The 2020 webspam report from Google said the company detected 40 billion pages of spam every day, that is up from 25 billion in 2019. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Google has added a bunch of new supporting details to the robots.txt specification document.

This is an upgrade from version 6.1.0 which was released on April 10, 2021. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

SEO tools analyze top ranked sites and provide correlation-based analysis for SEO. How useful is the information?

As the launch of Google’s Page Experience algorithm update nears, this study reveals how websites are performing against Google’s benchmarks.

Google has made design updates to the Google News Publisher Center. I don’t know if new functionality was added, it does not appear so, but maybe I am missing something

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

Google Search Console is now letting site owners report indexing issues with the click of a button. The post How to Report Indexing Issues in Google Search Console appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

There is an interesting tidbit you can learn about Google’s web rendering service (WRS) in the latest JavaScript SEO hangout with Martin Splitt of Google where Martin said he is “spilling the beans a little bit” by sharing that there is a layer on top of WRS that handles “prioritization, error retry, quality of service guarantees, caching and it also interacts with a crawling subsystem to actually fetch things.”