Google: Passage Indexing vs Featured Snippets

So when Google announced Passage Indexing at the Search On 2020 event, there was a lot of confusion around it. We cleared the big one up, i.e. it's ranking, not indexing. But there is another one, how is this different than featured snippets.

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How to Improve Site Performance: 4 Speed Audit Quick Wins via @mira_inam

Improving your web performance doesn't always have to be cumbersome. Start with these four quick fixes that require minimal edits to site code.

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Google Has A "Stupid" High Limit On Number Of Links On A Page

Back in 2014 and also in 2008, Google basically said it has no limit in the number of links it can handle on a specific page. So a site like Techmeme, which I love, has thousnads of links on a page, it would be able to process all of those links. Well, maybe not. Gary Illyes from Google said Google does have "some stupid high number" where it will stop extracting the links on that page.

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Google: Crawling Doesn't Mean Indexing, Indexing Doesn't Mean Ranking

This is probably SEO 101 but often even those who do SEO every day, they are so in the weeds that the basics kind of slip away. Martin Splitt of Google summed it up by saying just because Google may crawl a page, it does not mean that page will be in Google's index. Also just because a page is in its index, it does not mean it will rank in Google Search.

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Google Talks Rendering, Indexing, SEO & Developer Relations, Conferences & Bitcoin Scams

In the latest version of Google's Search Off the Record podcast with John Mueller, Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt. They spoke about a ton of topics including rendering, indexing, SEO and developer relations, the unconference and next conference and just a lot of joking around. But they also said that Bitcoin miners cannot use Google's resources to mine Bitcoin.

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Google Local & Maps Displays Health & Safety On Search Results

We now have some folks seeing the health and safety attributes that businesses have been able to add to their Google My Business listings back over a months ago, on the front end of Google's search results Google Maps results.

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