Josh Salvage

Freelance SEO Consultant 🔎 Bespoke SEO Training💡
[Formerly @JellyfishAgency/@TrainingwithJF]

[Josh Salvage @JASalvage]

@pedrodias We're not seeing the same story on @Similarweb.. at least not for the US or UK.

[Cyrus SEO @CyrusShepard]

Are Meta Descriptions still worth it in 2023? Increasingly, who knows

• EXCELLENT descriptions can positively impact CTR but
• Google is very good at rewriting them for user intent

In the end, you can only test, like @SearchPilot "Does removing meta descriptions improve CTR?"

[Google Search Central @googlesearchc]

The page experience update is now slowly rolling out (Top Stories will begin using this new signal by Thursday). It will be complete by the end of August 2021. More here: https://t.co/kDwhhOYklK

[Glenn Gabe @glenngabe]

In the UK and focus on Local? -> Google's Local Service Ads (LSA) Opens to UK

Sign-up is open for Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and UK: https://t.co/V0qwYszHZg via @GuideTwit

[Google Search Central @googlesearchc]

Introducing upcoming ranking signals for Google Search based on various aspects of page experience–combining Core Web Vitals and previous UX-related signals.

Read our pre-announcement
https://t.co/L3IrB2dOnM

[Mike Blumenthal @mblumenthal]

Google Lifts Chain Restrictions for Google Posts
https://t.co/o4GDVF49DN

This is being rolled out and businesses with more than 9 locations can now post using the API.

Sorry but Hotels NOT included

[Google SearchLiaison @searchliaison]

If a web page listing is elevated into the featured snippet position, we no longer repeat it in the first page of results. This declutters the results & helps users locate relevant information more easily. Featured snippets count as one of the ten web page listings we show....

[Josh Salvage @JASalvage]

@krystianszastok Nice! I will give this a go

[Krystian Szastok @krystianszastok]

I launched a FAQ Schema plugin for Wordpress: https://t.co/g19UINaFap
It works alongside Yoast or any other plugin, it just does one thing: it allows you to add FAQ schema to pages and posts without any use of code, just simple editor. Outputs JSON-LD.

[Cyrus SEO @CyrusShepard]

New Google click data from @randfish and @jumpshotinc:

• Mobile Organic CTR drops to less than < 40%
• Zero-click searches (desktop) > 34%
• 14% of clicks go to Google properties

Google in 2020: From Everyone's Search Engine to Everyone's Competitor

https://t.co/2eMPrfngty

[Simo Ahava @SimoAhava]

@beanstalkim Here’s the fixed link: https://t.co/A0cjGmaYu2

[Cyrus SEO @CyrusShepard]

New Post: How Google's Nofollow, Sponsored, & UGC Links Impact SEO

Includes a handy image to help visualize the changes

Certified 💯 fresh

https://t.co/wdOzw5wV2o

[Ian Lurie 🇺🇦 [email protected] @IanLurie]

A Developer's Guide To SEO https://t.co/GxZm3p4abU I did a brain dump of all the SEO advice I give developers when they're building sites. Have a look. It's also my last post as a member of the @portent team. Sniff.

[DEJAN @dejanseo]

A new search quality evaluation model proposed for evolved SERPs is able to deal with "good abandonment", or in other words, zero-clicks to us: https://t.co/QjAUI6LHo6

[Cyrus SEO @CyrusShepard]

SEO Ngram Keyword Tool: Extract N-Grams from your keyword list or content

Loving this for visualizing patterns in keyword data

from @RyanJones https://t.co/EPSAVogZhd

[Adam Doppelt @adamdoppelt]

1/ Today I am publishing chapter two of my 150k small business website report. This chapter focuses on website builders like #Squarespace, #Weebly, #GoDaddy, #Wix and #WPEngine that are popular with small businesses. https://t.co/0cQUlxgmiM

[Josh Salvage @JASalvage]

25% of all small business websites are missing an H1 tag.
And nearly 2% of SMBs are marked noindex. Blame Squarespace.
https://t.co/o6Igh1oZrR
Credit to @adamdoppelt for pulling this all together!

[Gisele Navarro @ichbinGisele]

One of the things I get asked A LOT is how to deal with unlinked brand mentions during content marketing campaigns. So I wrote about it.

Here's how to get big-name media sites to credit your content with a link: https://t.co/Vm2JEMRlbg

[Josh Salvage @JASalvage]

@gorcampbell @Photogkris @GoogleAds Working for us right now in the UK, but it's definitely slower than usual. Looks like changes are being made...

[Josh Salvage @JASalvage]

In April, Google rolled out a feature that auto-suggested answers to new Google Q&A questions. Over the past week, they have rolled out the feature to desktop browsers as well.

https://t.co/JflQFJ6QYq