Wish it were easier to help clients understand how your work affects their rankings? Adding this missing SEO tool to your stack can help! The post The Missing SEO Link: Highly Specialized Rank Tracking & Reporting appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Discover some free tools, SEO crawler integrations, and scripts to leverage with Google Search Console URL Inspection API insights.

Following the greatest single-day stock drop in recorded history, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg intends to shift the company’s focus to growing short-form video. The post Facebook Shifts Focus To Short-Form Video After Stock Plunge appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Is there any connection between meta keywords and improved Google rankings?

We know Google uses links as a ranking signal. But can sitewide links impact your organic search rankings? The post Are Sitewide Links A Google Ranking Factor

Aleyda Solis did a Twitter poll thread, multiple polls in a Twitter thread, around the Google page experience update. In short, the poll shows that page experience related metrics, such as core web vitals, is more important to their SEO recommendations despite most saying they saw no impact at all from implementing improvements there.

Google is testing, at least I can’t replicate it right now, enhanced buying guides in the search results. Basically this “buying guide” in Google Search lets you really drill into the options around what products you can buy based on your query

So I wrote this pretty deep dive into how Google uses AI in Google Search at Search Engine Land, and Google posted a shorter version on their blog. I noticed after that, some folks were saying that Google uses MUM for search rankings. Truth is, Google uses MUM for only two things in search, COVID vaccine names and a related topics in videos results feature – that is it

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