Google said it has recently added the author.url property to the Article structured data documentation. Google said this “url property helps Google disambiguate the correct author of the article.” But it seems Google added a number of author based properties to the document recently

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…

In a new video, Google offers advice on how to check if your site meets all the non-Core Web Vitals page experience factors. The post Google On How to Check Page Experience Factors appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google has updated the structured data testing tool page to a page that instructs the user to either go to the rich results testing tool on Google or the schema markup validator on Schema.org.

Welcome to this episode of the Search Engine Journal, featuring our guest Alli Berry. Alli is the SEO Director at The Motley Fool, a private financial and investing advice company based in Alexandria, Virginia. She leads and develops the key SEO initiatives on fool.com, including short-term and long-term SEO goals and objectives with measurable performance results.

Google is now requiring some businesses to add a physical address and not be a service area business in Google My Business. Google told Stefan Somborac that this is a “new feature is an automated, anti-spam protection designed to reduce category misuse across millions of business profiles.”

The test is currently limited to a handful of retailers in the U.S., but the ads, which are already showing domestically, will be rolling out globally to users in the coming months. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Google celebrated National Book Lovers’ Day by exploring popular search terms and highlighting Maps features to help users discover and support local bookstores.

Google’s Fred update saw some sites shed up to 90% of their traffic and sought to rid the SERPs of thin, ad-heavy content. The post A Complete Guide to the Google Fred Algorithm appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Does web hosting impact your SEO, and which host is best? We go through the misinformation and get the facts straight here. The post How Does Web Hosting Affect SEO & Which One is Best