Google released a major ranking algorithm update on March 7th. People are still noticing changes that are related to that update. The March update was one of Google’s biggest updates we’ve seen in a...
Over the past few years, Google has dramatically improved the ability to index web pages that require JavaScript to display their content. Can you get high rankings with JavaScript-only web pages? If Google can...
Google’s Danny Sullivan confirmed a Google algorithm update on Twitter. He said that Google does focused updates nearly daily. Broad core algorithm updates happen several times per year: Yes, see here: https://t.co/gckGCFT9tJ— Danny Sullivan...
Bing officials confirmed that Bing supports JSON-LD in addition to Microdata and RDFa for structured data. That means that you do not have to use the more complicated microdata code anymore. This was just...
GS1 is a new schema markup for products. Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that Google does not use GS1 markup at all. Google does not use it for search, ranking, rich cards, or...
Lazy loading images means loading images on websites asynchronously. This can be done by showing images only when they appear in the browser’s viewport. If users don’t scroll all the way down, images placed...
On Twitter, Google’s Eric Bidelman said that GoogleBot is unable to crawl CSS custom properties: PSA: Google Search crawler ? is based on Chrome 41 [1], which does NOT support CSS Custom Properties [2]....
Some websites use Sitemaps to show Google the canonical versions of their web pages. Google’s has updated the official page about canonicals and they say that Sitemap canonicals are ‘less powerful’. “Cons of Sitemap...
Some webmasters get notifications from Google asking them to provide higher resolution favicons. Google probably wants bigger favicons to shop up in their Chrome web browser. “Google systems have been unable to detect a...
Google announced that they are going to mark all HTTP sites as “not secure”in Google Chrome. The change will take effect in July 2018 with the release of Chrome 68: “Chrome’s new interface will...
The website audit tool now has improved support for href links in area tags. It now also supports the rel=nofollow attribute within area href links and it reflects the distribution of these nofollow links...
Google’s John Mueller said in a webmaster hangout on YouTue, that Google often uses the URLs that it finds in XML Sitemaps to determine the canonical URLs of web pages. Don’t confuse Google If...
