This month–which included Google’s annual I/O conference–saw a lot of focus (unsurprisingly) on the upcoming Page Experience update, with new announcements and also clarifications about how the update will affect rankings boosts in general and desktop pages specifically. We also saw a relaunch of the Structured Data Testing Tool via Schema.org.
In other Google news, we’ve seen indicators of a few unconfirmed algorithm updates shaking things up, along with some of our favorite SEO tools beginning to roll out Core Web Vitals features and integrations.
Read on for our top stories and roundup of what else is new in search this month:
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