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Google's Non-Canonical Cabinet: URL keywords an 'incredibly small signal'
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Google's Non-Canonical Cabinet: URL keywords an 'incredibly small signal'

Google's first Non-Canonical Cabinet episode (14 Oct 2026) restates URL basics: keywords barely count, use hyphens, emoji work in paths but not…

Oct 15, 20263 min read
Keyword Cannibalization: How to Find It in Search Console and Fix It
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Keyword Cannibalization: How to Find It in Search Console and Fix It

How to tell real keyword cannibalization from harmless overlap, find it in Google Search Console, and fix it with 301s, canonicals or…

Oct 14, 20263 min read
Chrome adds soft navigation Core Web Vitals to CrUX: what SPA sites should check
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Chrome adds soft navigation Core Web Vitals to CrUX: what SPA sites should check

Chrome's CrUX now reports experimental Core Web Vitals that count SPA soft navigations. Stable scores are unchanged; Search Console switches after graduation,…

Oct 14, 20263 min read
Rank trackers are getting 'poisoned' Google results, Nozzle data shows
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Rank trackers are getting 'poisoned' Google results, Nozzle data shows

Nozzle data shows that since September 2026 some rank-tracker requests to Google have returned complete-looking results pages with swapped listings. Nozzle measured…

Oct 13, 20263 min read
Breadcrumb Navigation SEO: How Google Reads and Shows Breadcrumbs
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Breadcrumb Navigation SEO: How Google Reads and Shows Breadcrumbs

What breadcrumbs do for SEO, how Google shows them on desktop and mobile since 2025, the BreadcrumbList rules and the mistakes that…

Oct 11, 20263 min read
Google details the UGC Fresh Data Program for forums and social platforms
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Google details the UGC Fresh Data Program for forums and social platforms

On 8 October 2026 Google documented the UGC Fresh Data Program, a dedicated pipeline for approved forums and social platforms to send…

Oct 9, 20263 min read
Google's September 2026 spam update is complete after 13 days 16 hours
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Google's September 2026 spam update is complete after 13 days 16 hours

Google confirmed the September 2026 spam update finished on 8 October 2026 after 13 days and 16 hours, far longer than 2026's…

Oct 9, 20263 min read
Title Tag SEO: How Google Uses Titles and How to Write Them
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Title Tag SEO: How Google Uses Titles and How to Write Them

How Google builds title links from your title tag, why it rewrites some, how length and truncation work, how to place your…

Oct 8, 20263 min read
Robots.txt Guide: Syntax, Rules and Mistakes to Avoid
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Robots.txt Guide: Syntax, Rules and Mistakes to Avoid

What robots.txt controls and what it does not, the syntax Google supports, rule precedence, AI crawler user agents, how to test the…

Oct 8, 20263 min read