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This post was sponsored by Notix. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. Push notifications are one of the most effective channels to re-engage users. But how…

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In an Office-hours hangout Google’s John Mueller answered the question of what algorithm factors are used to decide title tag rewrites. Mueller offered suggestions for a proactive approach for dealing…

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Smash Balloon Social Post Feed, a WordPress plugin, was discovered to have a vulnerability that exposed the websites to allowing an attacker to upload malicious scripts. Security researchers at Jetpack…

Does Google prefer shorter URLs over longer URLs? That’s an SEO myth that won’t go away. Here’s when URL length matters and when it doesn’t. URL length is the topic…

Google Lighthouse is the top recommended tool for measuring Core Web Vitals and other performance metrics. So it must affect SEO, right? Wrong. If the questions asked by SEOs are…

Google announced a change to several structured data types. This change affects the requirements for the HowTo, QAPage and the SpecialAnnouncement structured data. The guidance didn’t come with examples, which…

SEO is renowned for misinformation, misunderstandings, and misconceptions. This is in no small part due to Google being somewhat of a black box in order to try and limit the…

Google’s John Mueller answered a question in the SEO Office-hours hangout about whether a security vulnerability had any effect on SEO. He said technically it’s not an SEO issue. But…

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Google’s John Mueller answered an Office-hours hangout question about what to do about web pages for products that are temporarily out of stock. The person asking the question wanted to…

This post was sponsored by Adex. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. Did you know that bots can gulp a significant part of your advertising budget?…

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