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We can’t believe we’re already over a month into the new year, but despite how quickly time flew we’ve got plenty of news and updates to show for it.

Most of the industry news this month was related to various GSC changes and updates, new Google documentation and tweaks in SERP appearance. We also saw the addition of a Core Web Vitals lane in Chrome 88 performance recordings, and the Bing Webmaster Tools Performance Report added crawl and index data.

We’ve also seen a few cool new experiments from SearchPilot, a Google Ads Benchmark Report for 2020, and Gary Ilyes and John Mueller continue to confuse concerning link equity distribution. And here at Tight Ship we’ve also been discussing the best way to measure Core Web Vitals for websites with a lot of long tail.

Here’s our monthly news and insights roundup for January:

[Read more…] about January 2021: This Month in Search

2020 was quite a year for SEO news, from new ranking factors being announced to new technologies disrupting how we think about content, pagespeed and automation. As usual, we saw our share of core algorithm updates, and this year they came with a special surprise mix of indexing bugs. The COVID-19 pandemic also led to some changes in search behavior and trends, with a particular impact for more directly affected industries like travel, weddings, real estate, health, and remote working services.

[Read more…] about 2020 Year in Review