Google will start applying the surcharge beginning on October 1. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

And, new business openings remain strong in Q2, but the pandemic is far from over.

Google’s John Mueller discusses keywords in domain names in the context of SEO The post Are Hyphens in Domain Names Okay for Google? appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Google seems to have fixed the bug where review snippets were not displaying in Google Search. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

What is on-page SEO? On-page SEO is when you blend the art of writing with the science of SEO to rank individual pages for specific keywords. On-page SEO includes everything from meta tags, content format, and keyword optimization to get your content found by search engines and move your audience to convert with you.

On Friday, Google updated its FAQ structured data guidelines to provide examples around the guideline that reads “all FAQ content must be visible to the user on the source page.” The examples explain that it is okay to have the content in expandable sections.

Website redesign projects must involve SEO from the start to avoid serious SEO damage.

Gary Illyes from Google said on Twitter “I don’t know who needs to hear this but putting work in core web vitals doesn’t mean that the site can’t lose rankings over time.” He then added “I also washed my car hundreds of times and it still left me standing on the highway.”

Google is testing indenting search results snippets from within the same domain name. So if Google shows two results from domain.com, it will show the first one and then under it, indent it a little under the one above it.