Learn about Largest Contentful Paint – what it is, how it’s measured, and how to optimize for it to improve your Core Web Vitals score. The post What Is Largest Contentful Paint: An Easy Explanation appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google announced that all merchants will be migrated (or as Google put it “upgrading”) from the old Google Merchant Center to Google Merchant Center Next by September (next month). We knew this was coming, we covered the upgrade emails back in July but here is the official announcement.

There are many sad stories around sites getting hit by Google algorithm updates, such as core updates and of course the September 2023 helpful content update.

Google has updated the local pack, the local results box, in the Google Search results. Now when you click on the results in the local pack, the map slides to the left, behind the local pack listings.

Martin Splitt from Google said on the latest SEO office hours that having lots of nofollow or noindex tags or attributes on your site does not signal to Google that you have quality issues with your site or many low quality pages.

Microsoft now has these refinement cards or boxes directly in the Bing Image Search results interface.

Google has greatly expanded and clarified its documentation around how Search Appearances work within the Google Search Console reports. Google wrote on X, “We improved our documentation on Search Appearances supported in Search Console.” Daniel Waisberg from Google said, “I’ve been asked about this 1000 times, hope you’re all happy now.”

There are a ton of complaints and a lot of concern around Google Analytics missing data in the normal overview report for yesterday and today. I see it also, I am seeing no data from this site and others in my GA4 reports for yesterday or today – although the real time reports work.

A critical privilege escalation vulnerability in a WordPress cache plugin puts over 5 million sites at risk The post WordPress Cache Plugin Vulnerability Affects +5 Million Websites appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Looking to get a little more engagement and have more impact on Instagram? A carousel may be exactly what you need. Here’s how.