What to expect from SEO in 2021?
Want to learn the most important trends to be on the lookout for in 2021? Read our article to find out the top SEO trends for 2021.
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How to build Google Web Stories in WordPress
What do Instagram Stories, Facebook Stories, Snapchat Stories and Twitter Fleets have in common? They are all so-called social media implementations of the same stories idea. A story is a series of images or others types of content that belong together, and thus, tell a story. Visual storytelling is huge and now the web has […]
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Google ranking factors to change search in 2021: Core Web Vitals, E-A-T, or AMP?
Which of the fresh Google ranking factors will actually influence SEO practice, and which will fade away? Find out in this article.
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10 Silent killers that affect your website speed
You should be alarmed if your site loads after three seconds. Discover lesser-known causes of website speed killers and the best solutions for them.
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Top tips to grease your email marketing wheels in 2020
As email marketers, first and foremost, you will have to think about re-inventing the existing email marketing strategies in a big bang way if you wish to sustain your business’ email ROI in 2020 and beyond.
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How AMP technology can boost your content strategy
Content marketing, UX, and web design have never been more interlinked and it’s a great opportunity to make the most of them in 2020 through AMP technology.
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How AMP technology can upgrade your email campaigns
AMP technology enables to add dynamic content to previously static flat email pages, and lets recipients react to it right in the message.
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Helping publishers and users get more out of visual searches on Google Images with AMP
Google Images has made a series of changes to help people explore, learn and do more through visual search. An important element of visual search is the ability for users to scan many ideas before coming to a decision, whether it’s purchasing a product, learning more about a stylish room, or finding instructions for a DIY project. Often this involves loading many web pages, which can slow down a search considerably and prevent users from completing a task.
As previewed at Google I/O, we’re launching a new AMP-powered feature in Google Images on the mobile web, Swipe to Visit, which makes it faster and easier for users to browse and visit web pages. After a Google Images user selects an image to view on a mobile device, they will get a preview of the website header, which can be easily swiped up to load the web page instantly.
Swipe to Visit uses AMP’s prerender capability to show a preview of the page displayed at the bottom of the screen. When a user swipes up on the preview, the web page is displayed instantly and the publisher receives a pageview. The speed and ease of this experience makes it more likely for users to visit a publisher’s site, while still allowing users to continue their browsing session.
Publishers who support AMP don’t need to take any additional action for their sites to appear in Swipe to Visit on Google Images. Publishers who don’t support AMP can learn more about getting started with AMP here. In the coming weeks, publishers can also view their traffic data from AMP in Google Images in a Search Console’s performance report for Google Images in a new search area named “AMP on Image result”.
We look forward to continuing to support the Google Images ecosystem with features that help users and publishers alike.
Posted by Assaf Broitman, Google Images PM
Research: The most common SEO errors
Every year our team analyzes site audit results of our users to find out the most common SEO errors. Light shed on the results we’ve got for last year.
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Google I/O 2019 – What sessions should SEOs and webmasters watch?
Google I/O 2019 is starting tomorrow and will run for 3 days, until Thursday. Google I/O is our yearly developers festival, where product announcements are made, new APIs and frameworks are introduced, and Product Managers present the latest from Google to an audience of 7,000+ developers who fly to California.
However, you don’t have to physically attend the event to take advantage of this once-a-year opportunity: many conferences and talks are live streamed on YouTube for anyone to watch. Browse the full schedule of events, including a list of talks that we think will be interesting for webmasters to watch (all talks are in English). All the links shared below will bring you to pages with more details about each talk, and links to watch the sessions will display on the day of each event. All times are Pacific Central time (California time).
- Tuesday, May 7th
4pm – Building Successful Websites: Case Studies for Mature and Emerging Markets, with Aancha Bahadur, Charlie Croom, Matt Doyle, Rudra Kasturi, and Jesar Shah
- Wednesday, May 8th
10.30am – Enhance Your Search and Assistant Presence with Structured Data, with Aylin Alroik and Will Leszczuk
11.30am – Create App-like Experiences on Google Search and the Google Assistant, with Allen Harvey
11.30am – Rapidly Building Better Web Experiences with AMP, with Adam Greenberg and Naina Raisinghani
6.30pm – Unlocking New Capabilities for the Web, with Pete LePage and Thomas Steiner
- Thursday, May 9th
10.30am – Google Search: State of the Union, with John Mueller and Martin Splitt
1.30pm – Google Search and JavaScript Sites, with Zoe Clifford and Martin Splitt
This list is only a small part of the agenda that we think is useful to webmasters and SEOs. There are many more sessions that you could find interesting! To learn about those other talks, check out the full list of “web” sessions, design sessions, Cloud sessions, machine learning sessions, and more. Use the filtering function to toggle the sessions on and off.
We hope you can make the time to watch the talks online, and participate in the excitement of I/O ! The videos will also be available on Youtube after the event, in case you can’t tune in live.
Posted by Vincent Courson, Search Outreach Specialist
Instant-loading AMP pages from your own domain
Today we are rolling out support in Google Search’s AMP web results (also known as “blue links”) to link to signed exchanges, an emerging new feature of the web enabled by the IETF web packaging specification. Signed exchanges enable displaying the publisher’s domain when content is instantly loaded via Google Search. This is available in browsers that support the necessary web platform feature—as of the time of writing, Google Chrome—and availability will expand to include other browsers as they gain support (e.g. the upcoming version of Microsoft Edge).
Background on AMP’s instant loading
One of AMP’s biggest user benefits has been the unique ability to instantly load AMP web pages that users click on in Google Search. Near-instant loading works by requesting content ahead of time, balancing the likelihood of a user clicking on a result with device and network constraints–and doing it in a privacy-sensitive way.
We believe that privacy-preserving instant loading web content is a transformative user experience, but in order to accomplish this, we had to make trade-offs; namely, the URLs displayed in browser address bars begin with google.com/amp, as a consequence of being shown in the Google AMP Viewer, rather than display the domain of the publisher. We heard both user and publisher feedback over this, and last year we identified a web platform innovation that provides a solution that shows the content’s original URL while still retaining AMP’s instant loading.
Introducing signed exchanges
A signed exchange is a file format, defined in the web packaging specification, that allows the browser to trust a document as if it belongs to your origin. This allows you to use first-party cookies and storage to customize content and simplify analytics integration. Your page appears under your URL instead of the google.com/amp URL.
Google Search links to signed exchanges when the publisher, browser, and the Search experience context all support it. As a publisher, you will need to publish both the signed exchange version of the content in addition to the non-signed exchange version. Learn more about how Google Search supports signed exchange.
Getting started with signed exchanges
Many publishers have already begun to publish signed exchanges since the developer preview opened up last fall. To implement signed exchanges in your own serving infrastructure, follow the guide “Serve AMP using Signed Exchanges” available at amp.dev.
If you use a CDN provider, ask them if they can provide AMP signed exchanges. Cloudflare has recently announced that it is offering signed exchanges to all of its customers free of charge.
Check out our resources like the webmaster community or get in touch with members of the AMP Project with any questions. You can also provide feedback on the signed exchange specification.
Posted by Devin Mullins and Greg Rogers
Instant-loading AMP pages from your own domain
Today we are rolling out support in Google Search’s AMP web results (also known as “blue links”) to link to signed exchanges, an emerging new feature of the web enabled by the IETF web packaging specification. Signed exchanges enable displaying the publisher’s domain when content is instantly loaded via Google Search. This is available in browsers that support the necessary web platform feature—as of the time of writing, Google Chrome—and availability will expand to include other browsers as they gain support (e.g. the upcoming version of Microsoft Edge).
Background on AMP’s instant loading
One of AMP’s biggest user benefits has been the unique ability to instantly load AMP web pages that users click on in Google Search. Near-instant loading works by requesting content ahead of time, balancing the likelihood of a user clicking on a result with device and network constraints–and doing it in a privacy-sensitive way.
We believe that privacy-preserving instant loading web content is a transformative user experience, but in order to accomplish this, we had to make trade-offs; namely, the URLs displayed in browser address bars begin with google.com/amp, as a consequence of being shown in the Google AMP Viewer, rather than display the domain of the publisher. We heard both user and publisher feedback over this, and last year we identified a web platform innovation that provides a solution that shows the content’s original URL while still retaining AMP’s instant loading.
Introducing signed exchanges
A signed exchange is a file format, defined in the web packaging specification, that allows the browser to trust a document as if it belongs to your origin. This allows you to use first-party cookies and storage to customize content and simplify analytics integration. Your page appears under your URL instead of the google.com/amp URL.
Google Search links to signed exchanges when the publisher, browser, and the Search experience context all support it. As a publisher, you will need to publish both the signed exchange version of the content in addition to the non-signed exchange version. Learn more about how Google Search supports signed exchange.
Getting started with signed exchanges
Many publishers have already begun to publish signed exchanges since the developer preview opened up last fall. To implement signed exchanges in your own serving infrastructure, follow the guide “Serve AMP using Signed Exchanges” available at amp.dev.
If you use a CDN provider, ask them if they can provide AMP signed exchanges. Cloudflare has recently announced that it is offering signed exchanges to all of its customers free of charge.
Check out our resources like the webmaster community or get in touch with members of the AMP Project with any questions. You can also provide feedback on the signed exchange specification.
Posted by Devin Mullins and Greg Rogers
How did the 2018 SERP changes impact organic search?
How did the 2018 SERP changes impact organic listings? More importantly, how should you react? The year of updates in review, and tips to respond to each.
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Google PageSpeed Insights tool: Tips to score 100/100
The Google PageSpeed Insights tool analyzes your site’s front-end performance and offers optimization suggestions. Here are 8 tips for getting 100/100.
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Ask Yoast: Redirect responsive pages to AMP pages?
A few years ago, Google announced the AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) project, and it’s becoming increasingly important for all kinds of websites. AMP is a technology to make webpages faster on mobile devices, improving loading times by stripping some of the design. Initially, AMP was mainly relevant for static content, like blogposts or news articles, […]
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Google I/O 2018 – What sessions should SEOs and Webmasters watch live ?
Google I/O 2018 is starting today in California, to an international audience of 7,000+ developers. It will run until Thursday night. It is our annual developers festival, where product announcements are made, new APIs and frameworks are introduced, and Product Managers present the latest from Google.
However, you don’t have to physically attend the event to take advantage of this once-a-year opportunity: many conferences and talks are live streamed on YouTube for anyone to watch. You will find the full-event schedule here.
Dozens upon dozens of talks will take place over the next 3 days. We have hand picked the talks that we think will be the most interesting for webmasters and SEO professionals. Each link shared will bring you to pages with more details about each talk, and you will find out how to tune in to the live stream. All times are California time (PCT). We might add other sessions to this list.
Tuesday, May 8th
3pm – Web Security post Spectre/Meltdown, with Emily Schechter and Chris Palmer – more info.
5pm – Dru Knox and Stephan Somogyi talk about building a seamless web with Chrome – more info.
Wednesday, May 9th
9.30am – Ewa Gasperowicz and Addy Osmani talk about Web Performance and increasing control over the loading experience – more info.
10.30am – Alberto Medina and Thierry Muller will explain how to make a WordPress site progressive – more info.
11.30am – Rob Dodson and Dominic Mazzoni will cover “What’s new in web accessibility” – more info.
3.30pm – Michael Bleigh will introduce how to leverage AMP in Firebase for a blazing fast website – more info.
4.30pm – Rick Viscomi and Vinamrata Singal will introduce the latest with Lighthouse and Chrome UX Report for Web Performance – more info.
Thursday, May 10th
8.30am – John Mueller and Tom Greenaway will talk about building Search-friendly JavaScript websites – more info.
9.30am – Build e-commerce sites for the modern web with AMP, PWA, and more, with Adam Greenberg and Rowan Merewood – more info.
12.30pm – Session on “Building a successful web presence with Google Search” by John Mueller and Mariya Moeva – more info.
This list is only a sample of the content at this year’s Google I/O, and there might be many more that are interesting to you! To find out about those other talks, check out the full list of web sessions, but also the sessions about Design, the Cloud sessions, the machine learning sessions, and more…
We hope you can make the time to watch the talks online, and participate in the excitement of I/O ! The videos will also be available on Youtube after the event, in case you can’t tune in live.
Posted by Vincent Courson, Search Outreach Specialist, and the Google Webmasters team
Getting started with Accelerated Mobile Pages: 5 helpful guides
The Accelerated Mobile Pages framework gives web developers the means to optimize their sites for faster, cleaner, and more efficient delivery on mobile. If you haven’t yet implemented it, however, here are 5 useful guides for getting started, covering the basics and new opportunities for using the framework in 2018.
Google brings AMP to email: What does this mean for email marketing?
Google has announced that its open-source project Accelerated Mobile Pages will be coming to email, as part of its plan to turn email into a ‘dynamic, up-to-date and actionable’ service and make the internet faster. What will this change mean for email marketing?
How Progressive Web Apps could rule mobile ecommerce in 2018
Championed by Google since 2015, Progressive Web Apps (PWA) are set to explode as an option for brands to increase traffic and conversions on mobile.
3 SEO quick wins to implement right now
We’re all ready for a new year of increasing sales, lifting engagement and giving our website the best effort possible. It only seems right to give you a three-step rocket of SEO quick wins, to kick-start your website for 2018. In this post, I will show you three things you can do right now to […]
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