SEO trends to prepare for in 2017

What’s on the horizon for search engine optimization (SEO) practitioners in the coming year? Columnist Pratik Dholakiya shares his predictions.

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Google & Bing increase the file size limit of Sitemaps files

While the 50,000 URL limit has not changed, your Sitemaps file size can now be up to 50MB.

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Google’s machine learning now writes featured snippets descriptions

Google recently launched sentence compression algorithms to help surface the best answers for your questions from publisher content across the web.

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Google Rich Cards expand to local restaurants and online courses

Google updated their structured data documents to support new rich cards and their suggestions around AMP HTML.

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Google may pick desktop over AMP page for the mobile-first index

Google’s mobile-first index may index your desktop version over AMP when there is no mobile version of your website.

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5 steps to optimizing your site for Google’s mobile-first index

Now that Google is officially testing a mobile-first index, columnist Ryan Shelley believes it’s well past time to get aboard the mobile-friendly train. Here, he provides some tips to get you started.

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Google Safe Browsing “Repeat Offenders” will get a 30-day time-out

Do you continue to violate Google’s safe browsing policies? Well, Google is about to get stricter on you.

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