Google’s John Mueller said on Reddit this morning that the page experience update that incorporates core web vitals is more than a tie breaker ranking signal. He said “it is a ranking factor, and it’s more than a tie-breaker, but it also doesn’t replace relevance.”

This is an SEO/SEM blog, we get some of our traffic from people doing SEO/SEM related queries in Google Search.

Microsoft announced their next AI model, a large-scale sparse model that complements our production Transformer models, they are calling MEB or “Make Every Feature Binary.” Microsoft said this makes the search results on Bing more relevant.

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

Google’s John Mueller says the number of affiliate links on one page is irrelevant as long as the main content is useful to searchers. The post Google: Lots of Affiliate Links OK if Content is Valuable appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google has posted an exam to test your SEO knowledge on crawling. Google said this is to test your knowledge on how Google crawls and indexes websites. This is a true and false test, with explanations on why the answer is right or wrong

I start off this week with the big Google webmaster report for August, it is a good one. Google has decided not to use safe browsing as a ranking signal in the Google page experience update. Google is now saying…

Brands need SEO first as it is the most viable and cost-effective way to both understand and reach customers in key moments that matter. The post 15 Reasons Why Your Business Absolutely Needs SEO appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Learn about advances in structured data, why it’s so important to your site, the benefits of structured data, and more. The post Just How Important Is Structured Data in SEO?