There are many questions about content length in SEO and what ranks the best.

To decide if “freshness” could be a ranking factor, we need to understand what the “Freshness” algorithm updates mean and how they affect search rankings. The post Is Fresh Content A Google Ranking Factor

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Google Search Advocate John Mueller debunks a theory that the faster speed of HTTP/3 can directly impact a website’s SEO. The post Google: HTTP/3 Doesn’t Impact SEO appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Ex-Googler offers opinion that uptick in featured snippets is because Google is “concerned about some of the low-quality experiences out on the web” The post Ex-Googler On Featured Snippets: Google is More Hesitant To Send Users Out Into The Web appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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. Got a lot of local SEO stuff for you, including longer…

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Google is testing various headlines for the Local Service Ads. Two of them show the “Ads” label and one does not, while they all test different headlines for the ad listings.

The new Google Business Profile interface in Google Search to update your local listing can show the previous location your business was listed at before you tried to move that location. I believe the old interface would show you a map pin of your current location as you try to move it but it would not label it as “previous.”

Google may now show you the time it takes to review a requested edit in Google Business Profiles. So if you edit, let’s say, your business category, Google may show you that this type of edit takes about 10 minutes to be reviewed by someone at Google.