If you use WordPress, you're likely familiar with the new Gutenberg editor that is coming soon. They just released version 4.1 of the editor and consider it "feature complete", meaning it's getting close to being added to WordPress.

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The days of submitting your websites and pages to Google are long gone, but you still need them to find you. How do they do that? The biggest way is through links, but they can also find your content through sitemaps.

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As a general rule, having more content on your site will help with SEO. However, quality is a big factor and Google makes it very clear that better content beats simply having a ton of content.

Recently at PubCon, Google's Gary Illyes advised that you should include "no hashtags in URLs" for the sake of rankings, but it's a bit nuanced.

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Three years ago Matt Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress, advised developers to "learn JavaScript deeply", and it's proven be to solid advice. Now Google is suggesting the same thing if you want to stay on top of the search engines.

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There's been some thought that since Google knows a good bit about real-life user activity, such as when stores are busy, they might use that data to affect search rankings. At least for now, that doesn't seem to be the case.

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Google has been making a lot of algorithm changes lately, but they seem to be (and should be) unrelated to the mobile-first indexing.

People working on their SEO often want to know exactly how best to build their pages; how many words, how many outgoing links, how many backlinks, things like that. Google's given us the answer -- stop counting that stuff.

Links pointing to your website are one of the biggest factors to help rank well in Google, but they're one of the most difficult and confusing to understand. Google tried to help explain more, but it's still pretty messy.

Google pushed out a pretty big update on August 1, but then on September 27 they took it a bit further.