Tag Archives: Ranking

Google announced in late May that sometime in 2021, it will be adding three new search signals into the mix to play into a website’s overall page experience score and, therefore, a website’s overall search engine results pages (SERP) visibility. Beginning in May 2021, Core Web Vitals will begin making up 3/7 of the search signals Google uses to decide a webpage’s “page experience” score. The actual weight of each signal hasn’t been unannounced. To help webmasters prepare for the… Source link

Google is announcing Core Web Vitals will become ranking signals in May 2021 in an update that will also combine existing UX-related signals. We’re announcing that page experience ranking signals for Google Search will launch in May 2021. This will combine Core Web Vitals and previous UX-related signals. Learn more: https://t.co/OrrR8LDl1a — Google Webmasters (@googlewmc) November 10, 2020 The ‘page experience’ signal combines Core Web Vitals with the following… Source link

A tweet with Danny Sullivan of Google and someone from BuzzFeed highlighted a possible bug in how Google ranks pages. Google is supposed to rank the articles articles first.  Instead, Google is ranking articles published by others who cite the original author, but not the original article. Original Reporting Not Shown In Google The tweet was by someone from BuzzFeed News. They were concerned because they broke a story about a celebrity. A week later, several other websites reported the same… Source link

A tweet with Danny Sullivan of Google and someone from BuzzFeed highlighted a possible bug in how Google ranks pages. Google is supposed to rank the articles articles first.  Instead, Google is ranking articles published by others who cite the original author, but not the original article. Original Reporting Not Shown In Google The tweet was by someone from BuzzFeed News. They were concerned because they broke a story about a celebrity. A week later, several other websites reported the same… Source link

Google says content cannot be optimized for Discover in the same way that it can be optimized for search results. This is stated in an updated help document that contains information on how Google Discover surfaces content to match users’ interests. In explaining how content is surfaced, Google notes that publishers should not rely on traffic from Discover due to its “serendipitous” nature. This was not stated as succinctly in previous versions of the same help document. Here’s a look at… Source link