A recent exchange between SEO professional Neil McCarthy and Google Search Advocate John Mueller has highlighted how Google treats hreflang tags. McCarthy observed pages intended for Belgian French users (fr-be) appearing in France. Mueller clarified that hreflang is a suggestion, not a guarantee. Here’s what this interaction shows us about hreflang, canonical tags, and international … Read more
In a recent episode of Google’s Search Off The Record podcast, the company’s Search Relations team hinted at potential changes in how country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) are valued for SEO. This revelation came during a discussion on internationalization and hreflang implementation. The Fading Importance Of ccTLDs Gary Illyes, a senior member of Google’s Search Relations … Read more
Google’s John Mueller says the Search team is “explicitly evaluating” how to reward sites that produce helpful, high-quality content when the next core update rolls out. The comments came in response to a discussion on X about the impact of March’s core update and September’s helpful content update. In a series of tweets, Mueller acknowledged … Read more
On August 10, Elon Musk teased a bit about starting his own social media site X.com on Twitter. He used the microblogging platform Twitter to post about his plans as he replied to another user’s comment. In case you were wondering about the meaning behind X.com, it was the name of the domain associated with … Read more
