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Monday, 12 April 2021

Search Engine Roundtable

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 12, 2021
Vlog #115: Fay Friedman On Duplicate Content, Featured Snippets & People Also Ask
Google Product Reviews Update Was Really Big For Affiliates & Review Sites
Google: After Rendering; Focus On If Your Site Adds Value Over Others
Google Has Changed Cumulative Layout Shift Metric
Microsoft Bing Can Crawl Parameterized URLs Occasionally
Google Search Console Office In Tel Aviv Partially Opens Back Up

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 12, 2021

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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web...

Vlog #115: Fay Friedman On Duplicate Content, Featured Snippets & People Also Ask

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In part one, Fay Friedman and I spoke about E-Commerce SEO vs Other SEO & Common SEO Audit Issues in part two we spoke more about duplicate content...

Google Product Reviews Update Was Really Big For Affiliates & Review Sites

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Last Thursday, Google began rolling out the new Google Products Reviews Update - I covered everything Google has said about it over in that story but now, it is time to cover the impact. It has been a few days since it started rolling out and those hit by this update are showing that this update can be as big as a core update if impacted.

Google: After Rendering; Focus On If Your Site Adds Value Over Others

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Gary Illyes from Google said when it comes to ranking in Google, it is often not about your core web vital scores, if you are using AMP, nor your database size. After you know that Google can access and render your pages, the next step is making sure your content adds value over the competition.

Google Has Changed Cumulative Layout Shift Metric

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Google has made changes to how it calculates the CLS, cumulative layout shift, metric within core web vitals. Specifically maximum session window with 1 second gap, capped at 5 seconds. This was done to make it "more fair for long running pages and single page apps," Malte Ubl from Google said.

Microsoft Bing Can Crawl Parameterized URLs Occasionally

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Frederic Dubut from Microsoft said Bing "may still crawl parameterized URLs occasionally." He said that the "most common parameters are taken into account in indexing" but it still may crawl the other parameterized URLs here and there.

Google Search Console Office In Tel Aviv Partially Opens Back Up

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