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[Olivian Breda]

Google Says Deep Subfolders In URLs Doesn't Matter For SEO https://www.seroundtable.com/google-deep-subfolders-urls-seo-32818.html

Does it matter how deep your subfolder URL structure is for SEO purposes and Google rankings? No, not really. John Mueller of Google said even recently on Twitter "I don't think any search engine would care either way."

 

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Core Web Vitals and Site Speed Test - Treo.sh https://treo.sh/sitespeed

Find out how fast your website is for real users. It's free and instant.

 

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Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought - Bitestring's Blog https://www.bitestring.com/posts/2023-03-19-web-fingerprinting-is-worse-than-I-thought.html

If you are reading this article, you are most likely using a web browser, and you have some expectations or beliefs about online privacy and security. For example, I do not know what you are reading on other tabs on your web browser, and you would like to keep it that way. But the websites themselves know that you are reading a particular page on their website.

 

[Olivian Breda]

Google spune "nu" pentru Schema FAQs.

Știu site-uri care au depus eforturi să implementeze întrebări frecvente pe unele pagini, apoi să pună Schema FAQ, și acum vine Google și spune: "Am renunțat la Schema FAQs".

Pe scurt, dacă aveți Schema FAQ, păstrați, nu vă face niciun rău, dar dacă nu aveți Schema FAQs, nu le puneți, că la Google au devenit irelevante.

E o știre neplăcută, în seria lucrurilor la care Google renunță.

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Changes to HowTo and FAQ rich results | Google Search Central Blog | Google for Developers https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/08/howto-faq-changes

To provide a cleaner and more consistent search experience, we're changing how some rich results types are shown in Google's search results. In particular, we're reducing the visibility of FAQ rich results, and limiting How-To rich results to desktop devices. This change should finish rolling out globally within the next week.

 

[Olivian Breda]

Google Says Links No Longer A Top Three Ranking Factor https://www.seroundtable.com/google-links-no-longer-a-top-three-ranking-factor-36094.html

Google has been downplaying the importance of links in its ranking algorithm for the past couple of years now. But last Thursday, at PubCon, Gary Illyes from the Google Search team said he wouldn't even put links into the top three ranking signals Google Search uses.


AMA with Google's Gary Illyes: 15 quick SEO takeaways https://searchengineland.com/ama-google-gary-illyes-seo-takeaways-432325

Google's Gary Illyes on ranking signals, AI content, voice data in GSC, Core Web Vitals, the importance of links and much more.


Google uses Click Data for Rankings - SISTRIX https://www.sistrix.com/blog/google-uses-click-data-for-rankings/

Eric Lehman, who worked for Google for 17 years on search quality and ranking, testified in court that Google uses click data for ranking.


Psychology of Design: 106 Cognitive Biases & Principles That Affect Your UX https://growth.design/psychology

106 Cognitive Biases & Principles That Affect Your UX

 

[Olivian Breda]

An Anonymous Source Shared Thousands of Leaked Google Search API Documents with Me; Everyone in SEO Should See Them - SparkToro:

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. And while some of these overlap with information revealed during the Google/DOJ case (some of which you can read about on this thread from 2020), many are novel and suggest insider knowledge.



Secrets from the Algorithm: Google Search’s Internal Engineering Documentation Has Leaked:

Learn what you always wish you knew about Google's algorithms.



Google confirms the leaked Search documents are real - The Verge:

/ Until today, the company refused to comment on the authenticity of the trove of documents.



Google responds to leak: Documentation lacks context:

What Google told us. Google told us that a lot of assumptions are being published, out of context, based on incomplete information from the data leak.



There are a lot of attributes referenced within the API documentation, but this is simply information that Google collects and stores data on, it’s not confirmation that they’re ranking factors.

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One thing that really stood out, though, is that links from pages with traffic are likely rewarded more than those from pages that get very little. In my opinion, this should be the case and should never have been questioned.

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