Google: After Rendering; Focus On If Your Site Adds Value Over Others

Gary Illyes from Google said when it comes to ranking in Google, it is often not about your core web vital scores, if you are using AMP, nor your database size. After you know that Google can access and render your pages, the next step is making sure your content adds value over the competition.


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Google Has Changed Cumulative Layout Shift Metric

Google has made changes to how it calculates the CLS, cumulative layout shift, metric within core web vitals. Specifically maximum session window with 1 second gap, capped at 5 seconds. This was done to make it "more fair for long running pages and single page apps," Malte Ubl from Google said.


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Microsoft Bing Can Crawl Parameterized URLs Occasionally

Frederic Dubut from Microsoft said Bing "may still crawl parameterized URLs occasionally." He said that the "most common parameters are taken into account in indexing" but it still may crawl the other parameterized URLs here and there.


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Google Search Console Office In Tel Aviv Partially Opens Back Up

Google Search Console Office In Tel Aviv Partially Opens


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How Often Is Core Web Vitals Ranking Factor Calculated? via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Is the Core Web Vitals ranking factor updated on a real-time basis or is it rarely updated?

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The Sky Garden Method: Discover Evergreen Link Building Opportunities Using Search Data

Adding on to Brian Dean’s Skyscraper Technique, this is the “Sky Garden Method”. It’s a similar approach that requires no outreach time to build links, and can generate links well into the future.



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DuckDuckGo Announces Plans to Block Google’s FLoC via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

DuckDuckGo announces plans to block FLoC, Google’s new way of tracking users’ web browsing activity in Chrome.

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Pinterest Has a New Code of Conduct All Users Have to Follow via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Pinterest implements a mandatory code of conduct, called the Creator Code, aimed at maintaining a positive experience for all users.

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Google Discover Now Excludes 5 Kinds of Content via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Google Discover is excluding Satire and four other types of content. There is a report of non-satire content being excluded

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Clubhouse “Leak” Might Be a Simple Data Scrape via @sejournal, @martinibuster

The Clubhouse "data leak" has the hallmarks of a scraper bot downloading public information, appears to not be a hack.

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YouTube Used By More US Adults Than Any Other Social Network via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

More adults in the US use YouTube than any other social network, according to a study from Pew Research Center.

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