Giving in to pressure from regulators and competitors, Google’s updated screen will roll out in September and search engines will appear based on market share instead of bidding per user. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Navigation and menus can either improve the site or do it harm. Learn more about how your site’s navigation affects SEO

This update took longer to roll out than previous core updates; we are expecting more from the July 2021 core update. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

If your business currently uses short names, the links and campaigns you have associated with them won’t be affected. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

The question of which anchor text does Google count when you have the same link multiple times on your page, linking to the same location, is not a new question. We have been covering it since before before 2008 and even Matt Cutts made a video on it in 2014. John Mueller of Google just addressed it again in his SEO video hangout

Learn the steps to earning truly organic links and why you should focus more on relevance, value, and trust as key link building metrics.

Field data, considered towards rankings, will vary depending on real-world user device power, screen size, and network connectivity. Lab data has default values for these and, (except in the case of Page Speed Insights), can be calibrated by developers to simulate all manner of conditions

WordPress 5.8 arriving July 2021 will speed up websites by supporting the WebP image format. Image conversions may be on the way The post WordPress 5.8 Will Be Faster with WebP Support appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Plus, Apple updates its Maps and standalone Gmail campaigns are becoming read-only on July 1.

In 2019 Google came out with new rules and new types of link attributes, the new attributes were ugc and sponsored, to be companions with the nofollow link attributes.