September 2023 Core Web Vitals Champ: WordPress, Wix, Duda, Shopify
The HTTP Archive Core Web Vitals (CWV) report shows that the performance benchmarks of the top seven CMS have all improved in 2023. Of the top performers, one CMS in…
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Dozens of big brands have blocked GPTBot, OpenAI’s new web crawler
At least 69 of the most popular websites in the world have blocked GPTBot, the new web crawler OpenAI introduced Aug. 7, according to a new analysis. And the percentage…
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Threads is widely rolling out on the web
Meta is widely rolling out its web version of Threads. This move is aligned with the company’s goal of introducing fresh features to tackle its retention challenges. Why we care….
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Google Search Generative Experience For Web Browsers
Google’s next step for its Search Generative Experience is SGE while browsing. In Chrome on desktop and in the mobile Google app on iOS and Android, Google SGE can summarize…
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Google Testing Grid Format For Local Results In Mobile Web Search
Google seems to be testing a grid-like format for local results in the mobile web search results. We see these grid formats primarily for product and shopping search results, but…
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Google Has Three Categories Of Web Crawlers
Google has updated its Verifying Googlebot and other Google crawlers help document to add a new section describing the three categories or types of crawlers they have. They have their…
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Google’s 2022 Web Spam Report Shows SpamBrain Success
Every year Google releases its web spam report showing how much better the search company got at fighting search spam. This year is no different but here, Google is showcasing…
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SEO Vs. Web Developers: Who Should Lead Implementation?
The relationship between an SEO professional, the IT department, and the web developers of a site can be complicated. Web developers and IT departments have different priorities from SEO pros;…
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Google Search Console Core Web Vitals Report May Report On More URLs
Google updated the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console on March 27, 2023. The update may have resulted in a change in the number of URLs in your…
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Google AdsBot Mobile Web Android User Agent Updated
Google has updated the user agent for the AdsBot Mobile Web Android crawler. If you hard-coded this bot for any purposes on your site, you will want to update your…
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