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Understand how a Google Broad Core Update and similar updates impact your site rankings and what to prioritize in order to conquer them.The post What Is a Google Broad Core Algorithm Update? appeared first on Search Engine Journal. https://www.searchenginejournal.com/what-is-a-google-broad-core-algorithm-update/264261/

Google says it's impossible to prevent outages from happening, but the company is aiming to get better at alerting the community when issues are found.The post Google Says It’s Not Possible To Prevent Outages appeared first on Search Engine Journal. https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-says-its-not-possible-to-prevent-outages/434517/

A new robots tag, called indexifembedded, lets websites give Google more direction over which content to index in search results.The post Google Gives Sites More Indexing Control With New Robots Tag appeared first on Search Engine Journal. https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-indexifembedded-robots-tag/434396/

Follow the checklist in this guide to achieve higher keyword rankings and send more traffic to your Shopify site from Google Search.The post The Only Shopify SEO Checklist You Need To Rank Your Site appeared first on Search Engine Journal. https://www.searchenginejournal.com/shopify-seo-checklist/433674/

Struggling to get your residential construction business in front of motivated buyers in organic search? Use these proven tips to get ahead.The post SEO For Homebuilders: How Construction Companies Rank In Search appeared first on Search Engine Journal. https://www.searchenginejournal.com/seo-for-homebuilders/433792/

Danny Sullivan explains why deduplication may temporarily cause an article headline search to drop original article to page 2 of search resultsThe post Google Answers Why Entire Top 10 is “Stolen” Content appeared first on Search Engine Journal. https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-answers-why-entire-top-10-is-stolen-content/434317/

Learn how to deal with competing priorities and strained web team resources with these proven project prioritization frameworks.The post Web Team Project Prioritization Frameworks To Set SEO Up For Success appeared first on Search Engine Journal. https://www.searchenginejournal.com/project-prioritization-frameworks/432145/

These definitions will help you translate Lighthouse performance metrics into meaningful action items for a skilled and collaborative SEO team.The post A Technical SEO Guide To Lighthouse Performance Metrics appeared first on Search Engine Journal. https://www.searchenginejournal.com/core-web-vitals/technical-seo-lighthouse-guide/

Google may reduce the frequency of crawling webpages as it grows more conscious of the sustainability of crawling and indexing.The post Google Considers Reducing Webpage Crawl Rate appeared first on Search Engine Journal. https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-crawl-rate/434265/