Google’s John Mueller offers his thoughts on whether publishing multiple sites can negatively affect rankings The post Google Answers Whether Having Two Sites Affects Rankings appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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

Google’s Gary Illyes answers whether changing web hosting platforms can negatively impact SEO The post Google Answers If Changing Web Hosting Affects SEO appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

The Google March 2024 core update is still rolling out, almost 6 weeks now, and we saw two shifts of ranking volatility, both mid-week and the weekend before. Google’s Danny Sullivan went on the defensive on search quality and forum listings…

Google is testing another ad format, another card like format, for its search ads. We previously saw the vertical and tall ad cards, then the carousel horizontal card format and now here are just plain horizontal ad cards.

Google was asked if having two websites and Google finding out about them would cause the websites to drop in rankings. John Mueller from Google said that is “not likely,” adding that many people have several websites and that is fine.

Gary Illyes from Google said in the recent Google SEO office hours the Google Indexing API may work for unsupported content formats, but that you shouldn’t be “surprised if suddenly it stopped working for unsupported verticals overnight.”

The topic of using hyphens in domain names is one of the oldest SEO topics we have in this space.

Fabrice Canel from Microsoft announced that BingBot now fully supports Brotli compression and will soon be testing zstd Zstandard compression, a lossless data compression, for its crawler.

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