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Removal of TTI Metric in Lighthouse 10 improves PageSpeed Insights scores for 90% of webpages The post Lighthouse 10 Improves PageSpeed Insights Scores For 90% Of Pages appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Lighthouse 10 Improves PageSpeed Insights Scores For 90% Of Pages via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Video editing has a steep learning curve.
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13 Best Video Editing Software Tools For Beginners (2023) via @sejournal, @andreaatzori
Google’s John Mueller: Try to avoid link building In 2015, Google’s John Mueller was asked on a Google+ hangout “is link building in any way good?” Mueller’s initial response: “in general, I’d try to avoid that.” As with any Mueller answer, there was a bit more nuance to be found in his answer: “So that you are really sure that your content kind of stands on its own and make it possible for other people to of course to link to your content. Make it easy, maybe, put a little widget on your page, if you like this, this is how you can link to it. Make sure that the URLs on your website are easy to copy and paste.
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This day in search marketing history: February 16
The holidays may be over, but now is the perfect time to think about how to keep your customers engaged throughout the year.
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Webinar: Keep customers engaged all year long by Cynthia Ramsaran
Keyword-rich domains may harm a website’s long-term success, warns Google Search Advocate John Mueller.
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Google’s John Mueller Cautions Against Keyword-Rich Domains via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google has published a new link best practices in their SEO and search developer documentation. Originally it was a document about how to create crawlable links, but the document has been to include not just how to make links crawlable but also: Anchor text placements How to write good anchor text Internal links within your content External links from other sites Crawlable links The first section is very similar to the original document, which you can see on the Wayback Machine .
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Google publishes new link best practices
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 15, 2023
If you’re still on the waitlist for the new Bing, then it shouldn’t be too much longer. Corporate Vice President & Consumer Chief Marketing Officer, Microsoft Yusuf Mehdi posted on Twitter that they’ll be rolling it out to “millions of people” over the next couple of weeks. Hey all! There have been a few questions about our waitlist to try the new Bing, so here’s a reminder about the process: We’re currently in Limited Preview so that we can test, learn, and improve
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Bing’s new ChatGPT has multiple personalities
With YouTube Shorts monetization, how much money can creators make compared to the TikTok Creator Fund? Here are the differences. The post YouTube Shorts Monetization: How It Compares To TikTok appeared first on Search Engine Journal
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YouTube Shorts Monetization: How It Compares To TikTok via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google made $224 billion from ad revenue in 2022, which has helped hide four major cultural problems within the company, according to former Google engineer Praveen Seshadri. Why we care. Although Seshadri was not a member of the search team, he offers some interesting insights from within Google that may help us understand why Google has been lagging behind Microsoft and OpenAI in the ongoing AI wars – and why Google brought back co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin during its “code red” period
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Ex-Googler: Ad revenue is hiding Google’s fundamental problems