Now that the Google August 2023 Core Update is done rolling out , we wanted to take a deeper dive on how this core update differed from previous Google core updates, specifically the March 2023 broad core update . This update was indeed a big one, and caused a lot of ranking volatility across many verticals in the Google search results
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How the August 2023 Google core update compared to March 2023 core updates
Google’s John Mueller was asked if there is a way to prevent search traffic loss while launching a new website revamp. This specific case has URL changes with folders and subfolders.
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Google: There Is No Way To Prevent Search Traffic Loss From A Website Revamp
Gary Illyes shared a nice little tidbit on LinkedIn about robots.txt files. He said that only a tiny number of robots.txt files are over 500 kilobytes. I mean, most robots.txt files have a few lines of text, so this makes sense but still, it is a nice tidbit of knowledge.
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Google: Very Few Robots.txt Files Are Over 500KB
Google’s John Mueller said if you see that your sitelinks in Google Search are going to the wrong country version URL on your site, then try using hreflang. John said on X, “This is kinda what hreflang is for (and even that isn’t a guarantee that languages/regions won’t mix).”
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Google: Use Hreflang When Sitelinks Go To Wrong Country Version
We covered the topic of SEO for e-commerce category pages a number of times here. But Gary Illyes from Google addressed the topic last week in an SEO office hours. In short, he said if you are going to add content to those category pages, make sure they are not low-quality, auto-generated blurbs of text.
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Google On Content On E-Commerce Category Page: Stay Away From Low-Quality Blurbs
Google in October will start to require some advertisers who have their accounts suspended to complete the advertiser verification in order to have the account re-issued. Google said this does not apply to advertisers who do monthly invoicing.
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Google To Force Some Suspended Advertisers To Get Verification Before Lifting Suspension
Google will soon require some suspended advertisers to go through the advertiser verification process to be reinstated. This will start to roll out on October 10, 2023 to some advertisers. Who is impacted
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Suspended Google Ads advertisers may be required to pass advertiser verification
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Which CMS has the best Core Web Vitals Score? One of the top ranked CMS is totally unexpected The post September 2023 Core Web Vitals Champ: WordPress, Wix, Duda, Shopify appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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September 2023 Core Web Vitals Champ: WordPress, Wix, Duda, Shopify via @sejournal, @martinibuster
In this study and learn to provide better estimations and communications with non-SEO stakeholders of their migration projects.
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How Long Should An SEO Migration Take? [Study] via @sejournal, @TaylorDanRW
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Explore Google’s new initiative, the Digital Futures Project, which aims to tackle AI’s societal challenges to ensure responsible AI development. The post Google Launches Digital Futures Project To Study Impact Of AI appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Google Launches Digital Futures Project To Study Impact Of AI via @sejournal, @kristileilani