Dave Minchala

@minchala.bsky.social

SEO guy at very fancy and decidedly not fancy places.

A huge Google update rolling out over the Holidays? Looking more likely by the day. I wonder what made them miss an opportunity to launch during black Friday and the following week... that's basically like printing ad revenue...

Content quality at #SEOweek is super high caliber. My litmus test: could not tune out for even a second to slack for work else I'm all the way lost. Some of these other conferences are live performances of Google's public docs on best practices. That is NOT the vibe here!

Yes, and: Q4 update size and frequency may indicate how deep they gotta dig in the couch cushions to meet annual goals. Yes, even ad rev targets. You think ad spends stay still while organic traffic rides the roller coaster?

Kevin Indig@kevin-indig.bsky.social · 2y ago

The fact that google launches the December core update right after the November core update either shows that google ranking is a mess or that the term core update is meaningless because it’s just a kitchen sink.

Important nuance here on canonical piece: only shows WHAT THEIR SYSTEMS HAVE CHOSEN AS the canonical not necessarily what you're declaring as the canonical either on page, in sitemaps, in headers, w/e. Ideally, you & G agree. Often, you won't. 🤷‍♂️

Chris Green SEO@chris-green.net · 2y ago

URLS IN GSC ARE CANONICAL LINKS and GSC DOES NOT EFFECTIVELY EXCLUDE BOT TRAFFIC Some timely reminders anduper interesting notes from Daniel Waisberg's Search Central Live presentation. Thanks to Corina Burri for the write-up & H/T SEOFOMO news for putting this on my radar.

Still haven't come across a think piece titled "While My Bluesky Gently Skeets" so we're all falling down on the job I guess. Either that or we're all actually okay; I just think that's less likely.

Did you know if your load you LCP image from another origin (e.g. an image CDN) then LCP time may not be reported properly in RUM (but is in CrUX)? Let’s dig into why, and also how we’re looking to fix this very soon… 🧵