HTTP errors bring down average response time – 4xx and 5xx errors can bring down the average in crawl stats.Blocking client and server errors can “increase” reported avg. response times – Blocking unimportant 4xx and 5xx errors can reveal the true average for your website in crawl stats report.Page load resource higher crawl rate on lower priority sites – A high percentage (%) of page resource load resource UA requests might indicate that refresh and discovery crawling isn’t a priority for Googlebot on a particular host.Blocking URLs in robots.txt doesn’t shift crawl budget – Googlebot doesn’t reallocate or shift crawling to another area of the website just because you block unimportant resources (unless Googlebot is already hitting your site’s serving limit (which usually happens on large websites)).

we still recommend that you provide structured data, and you may also include these pages in your video sitemaps

The more deeply you understand your personas and the more detailed your insights, the more comprehensive and accurate your list of seed keywords will be.” All of your target keywords in the research process stem from these personas.

basic persona questions you need to answer include what their industry is, how big their department within their company is and what tools they need to do their jobs.

You can also group keywords by theme (as opposed to persona) and sum up how much search volume you’re targeting for each theme.

List posts and how-to posts are the two “most evergreen” content formats.

Posts that include “2020” or “2021” in their title tend to be highly evergreen. This shows that content with recent information is more likely to receive shares.

Content types with the highest proportion of evergreen content include “best of” lists, guides, data-driven research and industry reports.

John Mueller, Search Advocate at Google, basically calls negative SEO a meme these days

Gary Illyes, another Google’s representative, has made similar statements: [I’ve] looked at hundreds of supposed cases of negative SEO, but none have actually been the real reason a website was hurt

here’s what we think:Negative SEO can still work, but it’s much less of a problem than it used to be.

I don't think the meme of negative SEO will ever go away. It's tempting to assume someone else is causing issues, and, yes, sometimes people have a lot of money, time, bad ideas. Time will tell, and I'm pretty confident it'll be fine.

Mueller next reassured the publisher (as he has many other times) that the disavow tool doesn’t need to be used for random links that are discovered.

this particular case, where you’re saying you submitted a disavow file and then the ranking dropped or the visibility dropped, especially a few days later, I would assume that that is not related.

this is a process that happens incrementally over a period of time where I would expect it would have an effect over the course of… I don’t know… maybe three, four, five, six months …kind of step by step going in that direction.

The personas (luxury shopper, digital nomads, empowered activists and self-care enthusiasts) were identified via Microsoft’s first-party data and analytics over the last 18 months.

Luxury shoppers “value quality and seek ways to make everyday items more luxurious,

“Their preference for luxury extends into expecting the same seamless, personalized shopping experience in online service as they would receive in-store.” They’re also thorough, conducting extensive research and using multiple queries to find brands that meet their standards.

Google Business Profile will be the new name going forward for Google My Business. Google said the reason for the new name is to “keep things simple” and sometime in 2022, Google will retire the Google My Business app completely.

before that it was named Google My Business, before that, Google Places, and before that it was Google+ Local, before that it was also Google Places and then prior to that I think it was just Google Local

Google lets businesses manage their individual listings directly in the search results or directly in Google Maps, now Google is saying it prefers businesses with single listings manage their businesses in Search or Maps and not in the old Google My Business console.

Here Google is providing direct and clear advice that if you want your videos to perform better in Google Search, then give that video its own dedicated landing page, with prominent placement on that page. It probably also makes sense to add the video title, description and even the transcript of the video on that page.

Google said “it’s fine to include the same video on both a dedicated page and its original page alongside other information, like a news article or a product detail page.” But you should also look for a way to place this video on its own dedicated page.

For the last four months, Google has been miscounting the mobile page experience data in the Google Search Console reports. This impacted both the performance report and the page experience report in Google Search Console. The issue persisted from June 29th through November 1st

In almost all cases, Google is able to recognize that the two sets of structured data relate to the same product. They will simply use the most correct and complete version of the product in their data analysis and ignore the others.

It doesn’t help that Google is very vague with structured data and how it works.

if a set of structured data has an error Google will flat out ignore that entire set of data for this process

if you have three sets of duplicated Product data but two have errors, only that error-free set will be used. Even if those other two are more complete