Each week the Croud SEO team collate the latest news from relevant sources around the web so you don’t have to. Read through the top SEO news stories for this week below and follow us on Twitter or sign up to our newsletter.
The new evergreen Bingbot simplifying SEO by leveraging Microsoft Edge
09/10/2019
Microsoft has announced Bing will adopt a Chromium-based Edge browser (same platform as Google Chrome and Googlebot) in order to allow the running of Javascript and improve page rendering. This will allow SEOs to have an easier time getting pages crawled by the search engines without having to troubleshoot for each different crawler.
If Google says H1s don’t matter for rankings, why should you use them? Here’s why
08/10/2019
Google’s John Mueller recently stated that multiple H1 tags won’t get in the way of search performance i.e. Google doesn’t rely on specific headings to indicate the content of a page. SEL argues that they’ll still worth using correctly, as they can still help indicate to users the the content of the page and that should be the primary focus.
Google’s solution to search results dominated by FAQ Schema
07/10/2019
SEL takes a look at Google’s solution to SERPs becoming dominated by FAQ Schema enhanced listings. The solution appears to be to limit the FAQ results to three per results on the first page only, meaning if you’re not ranking on the first page, you will no longer gain an FAQ listing.
Google Search Console adds Video Enhancement, Video Appearances Performance reports
07/10/2019
Google has introduced new two new reports to Search Console which allow webmasters to analyse the performance of video appearances, however this will only show if using VideoObject structured data. Google also launched an enhancement report for videos that are using structured data to debug any issues with the mark ups.
How to fix the top most painful website UX mistakes [examples]
08/10/2019
SEW looks at fixing the top UX mistakes on site. This includes cluttered navigation, site navigation, aesthetics, poor page structure, fonts load times, image bloat, image formats, pop up banners, chatbots and CTA banners.
Differences between B2B and B2C link building tactics
07/10/2019
SEW breaks down the differences between B2B and B2C link building. The article is useful in breaking down the key differences in tactics between the two to help improve the success rates of gaining links in each area.
Announcing quick, free SEO metrics with a new domain analysis tool
09/10/2019
Moz announced it is releasing a free domain analysis tool, which gives top-line SEO metrics, it will also include new experimental metrics such as keywords by estimated clicks, top featured snippets, brand keywords, top search competitors and top questions.
How we grew blog traffic by 650% in two years — organically
07/10/2019
Moz released a case study highlighting the growth in a company’s blog traffic over two years by 650% and how this was achieved. Key insights include: reaching out to the whole company for writers, building a flexible content calendar rather than releasing a fixed number per week, ditching corporate-speak, not overly optimising, investing in AMP, using social media to gather ideas, getting creative with email newsletter subject lines and focusing on one priority at a time.
October 2019 Google webmaster report
07/10/2019
SER released a useful post rounding up all the relevant pieces of news for webmasters for October into one place.
