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Good Web Sites Are Good For SEO, Says Google

Google’s John Mueller stated somewhat of an obvious statement, saying basically that building a good website is often good for SEO. He said on Twitter “A lot of good accessibility best practices are also good SEO best practices, and just generally, making a site better for users often results in indirect, overall positive effects too.”
Here are those tweets for more context:
I thought it was a general requirement? Do you think it should be a ranking factor?
— 🐝 johnmu.xml (personal) 🐝 (@JohnMu) May 31, 2022
I don’t know what specifically they did, and whether the effect was from that. A lot of good accessibility best practices are also good SEO best practices, and just generally, making a site better for users often results in indirect, overall positive effects too.
— 🐝 johnmu.xml (personal) 🐝 (@JohnMu) June 1, 2022
Now, in practice, this has not always been the case. Sometimes bad websites rank well – in fact, there have been many cases historically where ugly looking sites ranked super well. I don’t think this works as well these days but back in the old days, often we saw ugly and confusing sites rank super well. We even saw some sites mistreat customers for SEO benefit ages ago – also, something that is not recommended today.
Danny Sullivan tweeted something in a similar vein also:
Good SEO is doing what good humans would do. If you’re citing a source because that source was important in helping you create content, link to them because that’s fair, deserved credit. And link to them without nofollow because that’s also, in such a case, fair, deserved credit.
— Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) June 1, 2022
So build a good web site for your users and SEO should follow…
Forum discussion at Twitter.
Source: www.seroundtable.com
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Google Product Grid Results Are Organic

We’ve been seeing a lot of grid-like formats with products and shopping results. We know some are ads and some are organic. John Mueller of Google just added official Google representative confirmation that many of these are organic – if you don’t trust that there is no ad label on them as evidence enough.
The other day, Dan Shure posted on Twitter this screenshot (click it to enlarge) of this grid product format and said “This is quite the search result page – there are up to SIXTEEN products below a SINGLE organic listing (in addition to the image carousels) and desktop is infinite scroll.”
Well, yea, these are organic. John responded on Twitter saying “They’re organic results too. This is one of the reasons it’s good to dig into our ecommerce site guidance if you sell products.”
They’re organic results too. This is one of the reasons it’s good to dig into our ecommerce site guidance if you sell products :). https://t.co/dUWxZmCDOq & https://t.co/U0FPRkmO3m
— 🐝 johnmu.csv (personal) weighs more than 15MB 🐝 (@JohnMu) June 28, 2022
Honestly, like I said before, I am not a huge fan of these grid formatted results for products. At least, they should be in some “click to expand” feature so you can see more. So show one line of these results with a click to expand. It is just too much in my opinion, even if Google is confident of the intent of the query.
Also, not all of these image snippets need markup to work, although these with the pricing and reviews probably do…
Forum discussion at Twitter.
Source: www.seroundtable.com