SEO

Bing Webmaster Tools Performance Report Adds Crawl & Index Data

Microsoft has quietly added new metrics to the Bing Webmaster Tools performance reports. The new metrics I believe include average position, crawl requests, crawl errors and indexed pages. Previously, when this new report launched in February 2020, it had only clicks, impressions and average click through rate (CTR).

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Search Buzz Video Recap: Christmas Google Update, Passage Indexing Interface & Search Interfaces

It has been a slow week or so in the search news space because of the holidays but hey - things are never sitting idle in our industry. There has been some speculation that Google did some sort of algorithm update over the Christmas weekend but it seems highly doubtful...

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John Mueller Of Google Helping Webmasters On New Years 2021

New Years Day is not over yet and John Mueller of Google has been out helping webmasters both in public forums and privately (I think). Here are some of the public responses John made during New Years Eve 2020 and New Years Day 2021.

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January 1 New Year's Day Google Logo / Doodle

New Year's Day is here for some folks and with that the January 1 New Year's Day Google logo or Doodle is also live on those who access Google.com when it is January 1, 2021 at their location. Google has changed the New Year's Eve Doodle cuckoo clock 2020 logo to a January 1 New Year's Day 2021 cuckoo clock.