The Evolution of SERP Features: What’s Replaced the Ten Blue Links
From featured snippets to AI Mode, the search results page has quietly stopped being ten blue links. The zero-click data shows exactly how far that’s gone.
From featured snippets to AI Mode, the search results page has quietly stopped being ten blue links. The zero-click data shows exactly how far that’s gone.
Insights isn’t a smaller version of the Performance report. It’s changed shape twice already, and now sits next to a very different new AI report.
Past 50,000 URLs, sitemap strategy stops being about hitting limits and starts being about what you’re actually vouching for Google to index.
WordPress’s Interactivity API promised one shared runtime instead of a dozen bundled frameworks. Here’s the actual state of it, two years in.
A server-side 301 and a JavaScript redirect look identical to a user but behave very differently to a crawler. The gap is measurable, not theoretical.
Search Console quietly dropped its mobile usability report in December 2023. Nothing since has replaced the page-by-page errors it used to flag.
Search Console and GA4 answer different questions about the same visitor, and forcing their numbers to agree is where SEO reporting usually goes wrong.
There’s no duplicate content penalty, Google has said so for years. The real risk in syndication is losing the canonical fight, not getting punished.
E-E-A-T isn’t a score Google checks on your page. It’s rater language, and on YMYL topics the gap between the two matters more than usual.
WordPress lets you register a custom post type in a dozen lines of code. None of those lines handle sitemaps, schema, or indexing for you.