What will happen if we use both the Canonical and No-Index Tag on a Webpage?
Have you ever questioned “What will happen if we use both the Canonical and No-Index tag on the webpage?”.
To understand this, let me explain the two things:
- No-Index: It is a directive that must be obeyed by the Google.
- Canonical: It is an attribute that modifies the HTML element with additional information. It is a strong signal that can’t be ignored but the crawler may ignore it (and that’s why we may sometimes get the duplicate content indexing issue in GSC).
Google Search has removed the Cache Search Operator
To make Internet Non-Redundant, Google has removed the Cache Search Operator.
The cache: operator is no longer working on Google Search.
Google has basically replaced the Cache Search Operator with Internet Archive (Wayback Machine’s) link spotted on a search link’s “About this result” section. You can read more about it from this blog post.
After removing the removing the functionality of Cache Search Operator, Google search has also removed its documentation.
Now, to see the older version of a webpage, users have to check the Internet Archive’s link present w.r.t each search’s link.
Search GPT Optimization for Websites 2024
Search GPT is an AI Powered search engine that is equipped with the power of traditional search engines but has conversational abilities with Large Language Models.
Search GPT works on Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) which is used by Perplexity and Google AI Overviews as well.
Retrieval Augmented Generation works by integrating information from a database into the LLM response (for enhanced accuracy).
Google Chrome Drops FID Support
In a recent tweet, Rick Viscomi (who takes care of Chrome’s Team Web Performance Developer Relations) reveals that, Google Chrome has ended support for First Input Delay (FID).
The Interaction to Next Paint metric has been introduced in place of FID.
Spam Score in SEO: What it is and Should You Consider it?
Spam Score is a metric created by different third party SEO softwares that explains how many spam websites are referring to a particular website.
However, spam score isn’t any official metric referred by Google (confirmed by John Muller in a reddit post) for improved ranking and you can safely ignore them.
Top 5 Best SEO Audit Tools 2024
Below are the Top 5 Best SEO Audit Tools which I think is still the leader in the year 2024.
- Google Search Console: Because here the data came directly from the product for which we are optimizing the website.
- Semrush: It has Javascript Rendering feature which works better than Screaming Frog.
- Screaming Frog: It is cheaper than Semrush if have to perform an audit for a big website.
- Ahrefs: It has similiar audit features like Semrush but has some limitation in different other features, hence put it at the 4th position.
- Moz: It is also good but I don’t like the tools UI in compare to Semrush and Ahrefs, hence put it at the 5th position. But who doesn’t know that the Domain Authority feature was first brought by Moz after Google’s Page Rank.
Apart from the above tools, you can also check our free seo tools.
What is Canonical Tag in SEO?
When we create a website, it may happens that two or more pages have the same structure, content and their is slight difference. So in such cases, when search engines crawl the website and find these pages, it flags them as duplicate content which ultimately hampers the website traffic. Hence, to make certain that this issue won’t happen, there is a meta tag called canonical tag, you can define in the page code that basically tells the search engine that the URL present in the canonical tag is the original URL and the search engine should consider indexing the canonical URL instead of the current page URL in which the search engine crawler is present.
Google may use OG Title for Title in Search Result
Google recently has updated its Title links search developer documentation.
In this documentation, Google has mentioned that it may use og:title for generating titles in search results.
Do we loose the Google Search Console Data after Domain Expiration?
Have you ever qurious to know that “What happens to the Google Search Console Data after domain expires?”.
Well, the data will remain present in the Search Console and the new domain owner can claim the data after domain verification.
So, the GSC data transfers from one owner to another.
Google Adsense Launches Ad Intent Chip Format
Google Adsense is launching a new ad format soon called Ad Intent Chips.
These intent driven chips will be added at the end of paragraph.
It will be based on the content and user interest.
From the image below you can understand the user Journey of Ad Intent Chip.