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This pandemic is affecting the health of the public, and it’s also impacting the economy. According to Google, “since the starting of February, search interest for coronavirus expanded by +260% worldwide.” While spikes in search trends are basic during events of this scale, there have also been floods in traffic for related products and subjects as an immediate reaction to the pandemic.

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Food, Beverages and Grocery Industry

Consumer Products food & beverage companies are facing significantly reduced consumption as well as disrupted supply chains. At-home consumption has increased, but out-of-home consumption – which historically generates the highest margin – has come to nearly a standstill. There may be long-term changes in customer behavior and demand.

Potential long-term impact on Consumer Products food companies, including sourcing strategies, distribution networks, and commodity pricing. Key questions leaders should ask, including about alternative channels, and ongoing relationships with key suppliers and customers. Practical next steps, including contingency plans for supply chain disruptions, and supporting business continuity. If you have a business websites or mobile app, now to need to ne updating as per customer needs on market demand.

Local News Websites

In this Covid 19 Pandemic, local news websites are helping to local peoples aware of Coronavirus latest updates and news of national to globally. If you are an owner of news website or app or you thinking start a news websites so will have to keep update with key parameters of SEO and well optimized websites.

Following key parameters of SEO for your news websites:

Real-Time SEO

The implication for news SEO is rather profound. Where SEO is particularly focused on the long term improvements of a website’s content and position to consistently enhance traffic, in news the impacts of SEO are frequently felt within a few days at most. News SEO is practically continuous SEO. At the point when you get something directly in news SEO, you will in general know rapidly. The same applies when something goes wrong.

This is reflected in traffic graphs; news websites tend to see much stronger peaks and troughs than regular websites:

Where most SEO is tied in with building long term value, in the news vertical SEO is as close to real-time as you can get anywhere in the search business.

Not only is the timeframe of the news index limited to 48 hours, regularly the publisher that gets a story out first is the person who accomplishes the first place in the Top Stories box for that point. And being first in Top Stories is where you’ll want to be for maximum traffic.

So news publishers have to focus on optimizing for fast crawling and indexing. This is where things get interesting. Since regardless of being part of a separate curated list, websites remembered for Google News are still crawled and indexed by Google’s daily web search forms.

Google’s Three Main Processes

We can categorize Google’s processes as a web search engine in to roughly three parts:

Crawling Indexing Ranking

But we know Google’s indexing process has two distinct phases: the first stage where the page’s raw HTML source code is used, and a second stage where the page is fully rendered and client-side code is also executed:

This second stage, the rendering period of Google’s indexing method, isn’t quick. Regardless of Google’s best attempts, there are still long delays (days to weeks) between when a page is first crawled and when Google has the ability to completely render that page. For news stories that subsequent stage is excessively moderate. Chances are that the article has already dropped out of Google’s 2 days news index some time before it gets rendered.

As a result, news websites have to optimize for that first stage of indexing: the pure HTML stage, where Google bases its indexing of a page on the HTML source code and does not execute any client-side JavaScript. Indexing in this first stage is so quick, it happens within seconds of a page being crawled. In fact, I believe that in Google’s ecosystem, crawling and first-stage indexing are pretty much the same process. When Googlebot crawls a page, it quickly parses the HTML and indexes the page’s content.

Optimizing HTML

In theory this sounds like it’s easier for SEOs to optimize news articles. After all, many indexing problems originate from that second stage of indexing where the page is rendered. However, in practice the inverse is true. Things being what they are, that first phase of indexing is definitely not an especially lenient procedure. In a past era, before Google moved everybody over to their new Webmaster and erased a ton of reports simultaneously, news sites had an extra component to the Crawl Errors report in Webmaster Tools. This report tells about news-specific crawl errors for every webpages that had been accepted in to Google News.:
This report listed issues that Google experienced while crawling and indexing news stories.
Such as errors appear right now totally different from ‘regular’ crawl errors, and specific to how Google processes articles for its news index.
I.e. a common error would be ‘Article Fragmented’. Such an error would happen when the HTML source was too cluttered for Google to appropriately extract the article’s full content. We found that snippets for things like picture displays, embedded videos, and relevant articles could hinder Google’s handling of the whole article, and result in ‘Article Fragmented’ errors.
Removing such blocks of code from the code snippet that contained the article content (by moving it to above or below the article HTML in the source code) would in general tackle the issue and hugely reduce the number of ‘Article Fragmented’ errors.

Google Has an HTML File Size Limit?

Another news-explicit crawl errors that I much of the time went over was ‘Extraction Failed‘. This error is essentially an affirmation that Google couldn’t discover any article content in the HTML code. What’s more, it pointed towards an extremely intriguing limitation within Google’s indexing system: a HTML size limit.
I saw that ‘Extraction Failed errors were common on pages that contained huge number of inline CSS and JavaScript. On these pages, the article’s real substance wouldn’t start until exceptionally late in the HTML source. Looking at the source code, these pages had around 450 KB of HTML over the spot where the article content really started.
Most of that 450 KB was comprised of inline CSS and JavaScript, so it was code that – most definitely – added no relevancy to the page and was not part of that page’s core content. For this specific customer, that inline CSS was a part of their endeavors to make the webpage load faster. In fact, they’d been prescribed (ironically, by development guides from Google) to put all their basic CSS straightforwardly in to the HTML source rather than in a different CSS file to speed up browser rendering. Clearly these Google counsels were unaware of a specific restriction in Google’s first-stage indexing system: to be specific that it stops parsing HTML after a certain amount of kilobytes.
At the point when I at long last figured out how to persuade the site’s front-end developers to constrain the measure of inline CSS and the code above the article HTML was compressed from 900 KB to around 200 KB, by far most of that news site’s ‘Extraction Failed’ errors disappeared.
To me, it showed that Google has a file size limit for webpages.
Where exactly that limit is, I’m not sure. It lies somewhere close to 100 KB and 450 KB. Narrative proof from different news publishers I worked with around a similar time causes me to accept as far as possible is around 400 KB, after which Google stops parsing a webpage’s HTML and just procedures what it’s found up until now. A complete index of the page’s content has to wait for the rendering phase where Google doesn’t appear to have such an exacting file size limitation.
For news websites, exceeding this HTML size limit can have dramatic impacts. It fundamentally implies Google can’t index articles in its first-stage indexing method, so articles can’t be remembered for Google News. Furthermore, without that inclusion, articles don’t appear in Top Stories either. The traffic loss can be calamitous.
Now this specific example occurred in 2017 and Google’s indexing system has likely proceeded onward from that point forward.
Be that as it may, to me it underlined an often-overlooked part of good SEO: clean HTML code assists Google run webpages more easily. Cluttered HTML, then again, can make it challenging for Google’s indexing system to understand a page’s content.
Clean code matters. That was true in the early days of SEO, and in my opinion it’s still true today. Striving for clean, well-formatted HTML has benefits beyond just SEO, and it’s a recommendation I continue to make for many of my clients.
Unfortunately Google chose to retire the news-explicit Crawl Errors report in 2018, so we’ve lost important information about how Google can process and index our content.
Maybe someone at Google realized this information was perhaps a bit too useful for SEOs.

Entities and Rankings

It’s been interesting to perceive how Google has gradually changed from a keyword based way to deal with significance to an element based methodology. While keywords still matter, optimizing content is now more about the entities underlying those words rather than the words themselves.
Nowhere is this more obvious than in Google News and Top Stories.
In past periods of SEO, a news publisher could hope to rank for almost any topic it decided to write about as long as their site was viewed as adequately legitimate. For example, a site like the Daily Mail could write on actually anything and guarantee top rankings and a prime position in the Top Stories box. This was a basic impact of Google’s calculations of authority – backlinks, backlinks and more backlinks.
With it’s a huge number of inbound links, not many websites would have be able to beat dailymail.co.uk on link measurements alone.
Nowadays, news publishers are considerably more confined in their ranking potential and will commonly only accomplishes great rankings and Top Stories visibility for points that they cover regularly.
This is all because of how Google has included their knowledge graph (also known as the entity graph) in to its ranking systems. In a nutshell, every topic (like a person, an event, a website, or a location) is a node in Google’s entity graph, connected to other nodes. Where two nodes have a very close relationship, the entity graph will show a strong connection between the two.
For example, we can draw a streamlined entity graph for Arnold Schwarzenegger. We’ll put the node for Arnold in the middle, and draw some example nodes that have a relationship with Arnold in some way or another. He starred in the 1987 movie Predator (one of my favorite action flicks of all time), and was of course a huge bodybuilding icon, so those nodes will have strong connecting relationships with the main Arnold node.
What’s more, for this model we’ll take the MensHealth.com site and state it only publishes articles about Arnold inconsistently. So the relationship between Arnold and MensHealth.com is fairly weak, indicated by a thin connecting line in this example entity graph:
Now if MensHealth.com expands its coverage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, and writes about him frequently over an extended period of time, the relationship between Arnold and MensHealth.com becomes stronger and the connection between their two nodes is a lot more emphasized:
How does this have an impact on the Google rankings for MensHealth.com?
Well, if Google considers MensHealth.com to be strongly related to ‘Arnold Schwarzenegger’, when MensHealth.com publishes a story about Arnold it’s much more likely to achieve prime positioning in the Top Stories carousel:
Now if MensHealth.com were to write about a topic they rarely cover, such as Jeremy Clarkson, then they’d be unlikely to achieve good rankings – no matter how strong their link metrics are. Google simply doesn’t see MensHealth.com as a reputable source of data about Jeremy Clarkson contrasted with news sites like the Daily Express or The Sun, because MensHealth.com hasn’t built that connection in the entity graph over time.
This entity based way to deal with rankings is increasingly more predominant in Google, and something all website proprietors should pay notice to.
You can’t depend on authority signals from links alone. Websites need to build topical skill with the goal that they construct solid connections among themselves and the subjects they need to rank for in Google’s knowledge graph.
Links still serve everything effectively get a website noticed and trusted, but beyond a specific level the significance signals of the entity graph take over with regards to achieving top rankings for any keyword.

Lessons from News Portal SEO

To summarize, all SEOs can take significant lessons from vertical-explicit SEO strategies. While a few areas of news SEO are only valuable to news publishers, many aspects of news website SEO also apply to general SEO.
What I’ve learned about optimizing HTML and building entity graph connections while working with news publishers is directly applicable to all websites, regardless of their niche.
You can learn similar lessons from other verticals, similar to local news and Image search.
In the end, Google’s search ecosystem is vast and interconnected. A particular strategy that works in a single zone of SEO may contain valuable experiences for different parts of SEO.
Look beyond your own bubble and consistently be prepared to get new knowledge. SEO is such a varied discipline, nobody individual can profess to comprehend everything. It’s one of the things I like so much about this industry: there’s always more to learn.