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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 5, 2024

Daily Search Forum Recap: July 5, 2024

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...

Jul 5, 2024 - 10:00 am
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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Console Difficulties, Google Ranking Volatility, Zero Click Study, Google Ads & More

Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Console Difficulties, Google Ranking Volatility, Zero Click Study, Google Ads & More

This week, I posted the monthly Google Webmaster report and we had more search ranking volatility over the weekend. Google Search Console had huge delays...

Jul 5, 2024 - 8:01 am

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Google: Request Indexing Does Not Change Canonicalization

Google: Request Indexing Does Not Change Canonicalization

Google's John Mueller said on that using the request indexing feature in Google Search Console's URL Inspection Tool does not change canonicalization. The question that was asked is if it can help speed up URL removal for a 301 redirected URL.

Jul 5, 2024 - 7:41 am
Google Search Engine Optimization

Google: Using A CDN & Want One Robots.txt File, Redirect Yours To The CDN

Google: Using A CDN & Want One Robots.txt File, Redirect Yours To The CDN

Do you use a CDN for some or all of your website and you want to manage just one robots.txt file, instead of both the CDN's robots.txt file and your main site's robots.txt file? Gary Illyes from Google said that all you need to do is redirect your main robots.txt to the CDN and control it on the CDN.

Jul 5, 2024 - 7:31 am
Google Search Engine Optimization

Google Updated Image SEO Best Practices For Embedded Images

Google Updated Image SEO Best Practices For Embedded Images

Google has made a small update to its image SEO best practices documentation, specific to the "Use HTML image elements to embed images" section. The update seems relatively minor but the changes to the wording was done for a reason.

Jul 5, 2024 - 7:21 am