Google's John Mueller said on Mastodon that for small and local businesses, "in most cases," core web vitals work should not be at the top of their list. He said this because the page experience ranking factor is not huge and more so, for sites with very few pages, Google doesn't usually have CrUX data for the pages on that site, and in those cases, the data is not used.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 20, 2023
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Google's Gary Illyes On Noindex With Redirects
What happens when the noindex, nofollow directives are in the HTTP header and that URL is also being redirected somewhere, will Google respect or ignore the directive. Gary Illyes from Google hinted that Google will likely ignore the directive to be safe.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 17, 2023
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FYI...
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Google: Stop Using 403s or 404s To Reduce Googlebot Crawl Rates
Gary Illyes posted a new blog post on the Google Search Central site asking all of you to stop using 403 and 404 server status codes to reduce the crawl rate of Googlebot. He said they have seen an uptick in the number of sites and CDNs doing this and they need to cut it out.
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Scrollable & Expandable Google Knowledge Panel
Did you see the scrollable and expandable features in some user experiences with the Google Search knowledge panel and answer boxes?Well, here are examples of both - I am not sure if they are new, for some reason, I don't think they are - but I don't think I've covered it before.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 16, 2023
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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 15, 2023
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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 14, 2023
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Google: 301 Redirect Close 1:1 Match Even When Content Language Does Not Match
Gary Illyes from Google said on Mastodon this morning that you should 301 redirect URLs when there is a "close-to 1:1 match" for that URL. We know that, but what he added was this is even true for when the "language of the content doesn't match."
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Google Ads Gains Quick Campaign Settings Button
Google Ads seems to be rolling out a small but yet powerful icon in the campaigns listing where you can quickly open up the settings for the campaign without clicking through numerous screens.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 13, 2023
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Publishers, as expected, are super concerned over the new AI features in Google and Bing...
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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 10, 2023
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Google People Also Ask "Trending" Label
Google is testing a "trending" label in the people also ask box in the mobile search results. I guess it shows trending searches in the category of what other people are asking about that query.
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Satya Nadella In 2008 Keynoting On Live Search (Now Bing)
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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 9, 2023
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Google On AI Content: Think About The Who, How, and Why For Your Content
Google's Danny Sullivan reiterated that when it comes to AI content, Google is fine with it, as long as the content is useful and written for people. If you are using AI to write spam, then that is against Google's guidelines. But Google also added a new section to the people-first content section on "who, how and why" with your content.
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