
As a reminder, the this update started on February 21 and lasted through March 7, 2023.
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After launching this design for the mobile search results last October, this is now officially live for desktop search.
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This update took 14 days to fully roll out and is now complete.
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Google featured snippets gain blue highlighted text

Not all featured snippets will see text highlighted in blue, but many now do.
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Want to advance your SEO game and get ahead of the competition? Here are three sustainable opportunities worth investing in this year.
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The local pack that Google generally shows for queries with local intent has gone missing.
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Google confirmed this test will impact 4% of Canadians. It’s similar to what Google did in Australia in 2021.
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How to update content and dates for SEO in 2023

Google says that only significant content changes should lead to updated article dates. Here are a few ways you can approach this.
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Google core updates and other algorithm updates impacted Discover, but now Google says the helpful content system does as well.
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Make sure to review user permissions and levels of access with this update.
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This update brings new languages to the product reviews update including English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, and Polish.
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This will allow you to potentially do more analysis with your data in other platforms.
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Instead, Google recommends you use Google Search Console’s crawl rate feature.
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Google publishes new link best practices
This help document went from basics on crawlable links to a much more robust link best practices.
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How to analyze Google’s SERPs

Conducting SERP analysis will help you understand what is and isn’t working for a particular keyword. Here are tips and tools to get started.
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Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) may gain more weight in overall Google Core Web Vitals or maybe not…

Google posted that the time to interact metric is being removed from Lighthouse 10 and thus that scoring weight will be assigned to cumulative layout shift.
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Google reiterates guidance on AI-generated content – write content for people
Also consider evaluating the “who, how and why” of your content.
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Your Google podcast manager stats will show a drop in clicks and impressions.
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Google promises to make their experimental conversational AI service, powered by LaMDA, available more widely in the coming weeks.
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Advanced image SEO: A secret manual
Learn how search engines process images and key image SEO tactics to implement from this comprehensive overview.
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While backlinks’ importance to Google has waned over the years, earning natural links through high-quality content still helps with SEO.
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Google has upgraded the video indexing report to help your videos perform better in search.
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Key SEO takeaways from Google’s 2020 paper on how text-generation models can be successfully used to detect low-quality content.
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The title and link elements are most important for RSS feed follow in Discover and Google parses img elements within other elements.
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The Verge covers Red Ventures’ use of AI to write content that ranks well in search at a low cost.
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The right SEO metrics to track will depend on your marketing goals. Get started with these useful metrics recommended by top SEO experts.
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Ranking on Google’s first page will be useless if there’s only one page of search results. Learn what else can happen with this change.
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The total number of errors should not change, this is just a reclassification of those errors.
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This report no longer requires structured data and if Google finds products in your content, it may show in this report starting January 6th going forward.
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An easy-to-read, highly condensed analysis of all the known, confirmed, rumored, and absolute myth-level Google ranking factors.
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AI-generated content has its place in SEO. Whether it’s helpful or spam depends on how, where and why you’re using it.
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The update started on December 5th and completed X days later on December X.
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