Tag Archives: Ranking

Google has updated its page experience help documentation to clarify how core web vitals metrics are used as a ranking signal, in a light manner. Google also clarified that other page experience signals are not directly used for ranking purposes in Google Search. What Google wrote. The updated documentation is in the ranking section of the document and it now reads: Core Web Vitals are used by our ranking systems. We recommend site owners achieve good Core Web Vitals for success with… Source link

Google is rolling out a few new changes to its ranking systems in search, which are designed to help surface good content in your results and hide some of the worst and most cynical stuff on the web. The company says that it is doing a better job of downranking content that exists only to summarize other content — which can sometimes be normal SEO stuff but is also increasingly a job for generative AI tools — and in combatting some of the tricks people use to trick its ranking systems.

Google confirmed a search ranking bug, a “very narrow issue,” as Google called it, that affected a “small number of websites” where those rankings would drop out of the Google Search results over the weekend and then reappear during the weekdays. Google’s statement. A Google spokesperson told Search Engine Land this issue has already been resolved and that it only impacted a “small number of websites.” Google wrote: We’re aware of a very narrow issue that caused… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Yandex Data Leak: The Ranking Factors & The Myths We Found (Festive Flashback)  Search Engine Journal Source link

Celebrate the Holidays with some of SEJ’s best articles of 2023. Our Festive Flashback series runs from December 21 – January 5, featuring daily reads on significant events, fundamentals, actionable strategies, and thought leader opinions. 2023 has been quite eventful in the SEO industry and our contributors produced some outstanding articles to keep pace and reflect these changes. Catch up on the best reads of 2023 to give you plenty to reflect on as you move into 2024. Yandex is the… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Ekeler’s Edge: Can non-QB win MVP? + Ranking top 4 RBs for fantasy playoffs  Yahoo Sports Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]How Google Search and ranking works, according to Google’s Pandu Nayak  Search Engine Land Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Ranking every college football bowl game from worst to best  Yahoo Sports Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Poll: How Important Is The Yandex Search Ranking Factors Leak?  Search Engine Roundtable Source link

Yandex is the search engine with majority market share in Russia and the fourth largest search engine in the world. On January 27, 2023, it suffered what is arguably one of the largest data leaks that a modern tech company has endured in many years, but is the second leak in less than a decade. In 2015, a former Yandex employee attempted to sell Yandex’s search engine code on the black market for around $30,000. The initial leak in January this year revealed 1,922 ranking factors, of which… Source link