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Bing: XML Sitemaps Must Include Main Ranking & Category Pages

Bing's Fabrice Canal said on Twitter "Sitemaps are a daily, and ideally real time, snapshots of all relevant pages of your sites." "Sitemaps must include these main ranking pages," he added. This was in response to Dawn Anderson posting something a development team told her.

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Thinking Outside the SEO Box: How to Find Global Opportunities Now via @lorenbaker

Here's how you can start thinking outside of the SEO box and utilize your existing technical skills to pitch and implement ideas that deliver results.

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New Google Home Activities Structured Data

Google added a new section to the supported structured data developer docs for home activities. This structured data should be used on recorded or live videos where you offer instructions on what activities, like fitness classes and so on, to do from your home.

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Most Google Support Documents Are Not Proactively Updated

Yesterday in the Google Webmaster Virtual Unconference I asked a Google representative to guess on what percentage of the Google support documents were updated in a proactive way versus a reactive way. The Googler said 60-80% of the time, the docs are updated in a reactive way.

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Report Issues To Google Search Over Security Issue False Positives

Google has a new form you can use to report false positives around security issues with your site. In short, if you think your site was mistakenly flagged by Google Search for security issues, you can ask Google for a review using the "Report a Security Issue" button.