title tags

In this episode Cord & Einar discuss whether or not AMP is ranking factor, priority hints, Google Search Essentials, the October 2022 spam Google spam update, title tags, WordPress 6.1, how Yoast pings search engines, and an article about topical authority by the late Bill Slawski.

Sources Cited:

• brightonSEO online: October 2022
• Search Engine Journal: AMP: Is It A Google Ranking Factor?
• web.dev: Optimizing resource loading with Priority Hints
• Search Engine Journal: Goodbye Google Webmaster Guidelines, Hello Google Search Essentials
• Search Engine Land: Google releases October 2022 spam update
• Search Engine Journal: Google Replaces Title Tags With Site Names For Homepage Results
• Search Engine Land: Google rolling out site names and updated favicon logos in search results
• Search Engine Journal: WordPress 6.1 Is Jam-Packed With Performance Upgrades
• Yoast: Disabling search engine pings
• Go Fish Digital: Google Using Website Representation Vectors to Classify with Expertise and Authority

In this episode Cord & Einar discuss the title tag length, "link juice," AMP is dead, measuring forms with GA4, how Googlebot handles iframes, and how to think about copies of original content on the web.

Sources Cited:

• Search Engine Land: What should the title tag length be in 2023?
• SEO Roundtable: Google: Anything That Talks About Link Juice Should Be Ignored
• Lily Ray 😏 on Twitter: "The "nail in the coffin for AMP"
• Search Engine Land: GA4 now has an enhanced measurement option for Form interactions
• Search Engine Land: Technical SEO testing: How Googlebot handles iframes
• SEO Roundtable: Google Gives Advice On When Copy Sites Outrank Your Original Content