Google has updated its URL structure best practices for Google Search help documentation to tell us again to not use URL fragments to change the content on that page.

Did you know that Google Maps can suggest that you add a stop along the way as an advertisement or sponsored route along the way? It pops up as you are driving and asks you if you want to “Add stop” or “Cancel.”

Have you ever had a site that ranks for unrelated keywords, queries you do not want to rank for? John Mueller from Google said if you do, maybe you should make your title and content clearer if they are too amibiguious.

High severity CSRF vulnerability in the Nested Pages WordPress Plugin affects up to +100,000 installations The post WordPress Nested Pages Plugin High Severity Vulnerability appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Tips applicable to local business marketing were wonderfully plentiful at this year’s MozCon. Today, Miriam shares the takeaways that rang bells and lit bulbs for her.

Surprise, surprise, it was another weekend and we again see some more than usual ranking volatility from Google Search. Again, this reminds me of the weekend ranking bug Google had late last year into early this year. But who knows, maybe it is just a ranking system that shuffles things up for weekend searchers?

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

This week, I posted the monthly Google Webmaster report and we had more search ranking volatility over the weekend. Google Search Console had huge delays…

Google seems to have fixed the Google Search Console Performance Reports last night at about 7:45pm ET. I posted a short update in my story yesterday, but waited until this morning to post a new story that it is fixed because sometimes I’ve seen it recover and then slip back

Google’s John Mueller said on that using the request indexing feature in Google Search Console’s URL Inspection Tool does not change canonicalization. The question that was asked is if it can help speed up URL removal for a 301 redirected URL.