Google’s John Mueller told one website owner on Twitter, and I quote, “I would not assume traffic changes are indicative of technical issues – it’s easy to spend a lot of time “fixing” technical things when the problem is elsewhere.”

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

Google values transparency when it comes to elevating news sources. The company shares more information about what that means in practice.

Google’s John Mueller advises site owners that deleting a sitemap won’t prevent URLs from being crawled in the future. The post Google: Deleting a Sitemap Won’t Stop Us Crawling Your Site appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

The other week, Google posted a fresh blog post named prevent portions of your site from being abused by spam. The advice was not too far off from the advice the company published in 2017

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that many folks ask for more detailed 404/410 information within Google Search Console. So while Google may not provide those details today, he said “I wouldn’t count it out forever.” It is just Google has other priorities and maybe 404 reporting is not one of them?

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I’m going to knock on wood as I type this, but: It looks like we might have a (mostly) normal summer this year in the U.S. After the lockdowns, isolation, anxiety and fear of 2020, it finally feels like things are opening up. This is all great for everything except getting people to read your marketing content

Third-party cookies and the tactics they’ve supported will be gone in 2022. The question is how your e-commerce business evolves in response

Microsoft Audience Network is also expanding to two new markets: France and Germany. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article