Community Webinars

Google Discover basics

• Google’s guide on how to access Google Discover on Android and iOS
• Google’s documentation about Discover for site owners
• Chartbeat: Google Discover now available in the Real-Time Dashboard
• Chartbeat: Our data on the content that drives Google Discover traffic and engagement
• Marfeel: Google Discover editorial strategy
• Moz: What Is Google Discover, and How Can You Boost Your Traffic?
• FAQ: Google Discover

Google Discover traffic decline

• SEO Roundtable: Google: It Sounds Bad If Your Site Depends On Google Discover Traffic
• Press Gazette: Latest Google updates have led to massive traffic changes for news websites
• Amsive: Traffic Declines in Google Discover, Top Stories & Google News Affect Publishers Across the Globe
• Google Search Status Dashboard

General decrease in referral traffic from search and social

• CNBC: Facebook made a major change after years of PR disasters, and news sites are paying the price
• INMA: Traffic panic should lead news publishers to revamp online distribution
• CNN: News publishers sound alarm on Google’s new AI-infused search, warn of ‘catastrophic’ impacts

Building more direct relationships with readers

• Better News: How can I apply funnel discipline to my newsroom?
• Reuters Institute: As social media turns away from the news, publishers meet audiences on other channels
• Nieman Lab: How 13 news publishers are using WhatsApp Channels

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Questions asked during the webinar

Webinar attendees asked the following questions.

What’s your opinion about WEBP vs AVIF on its impact regarding Largest Contentful Paint?

We still use WEBP, but Akamai Image Manager does the determination of what type dynamically for each client connecting. The change is likely due to the device or browser used for testing. Regarding performance, there is likely no significant impact to LCP between the two.

Is there an upcoming roadmap that can be shared for the Catchpoint performance dashboard?

We are currently working on Site Performance Dashboard V2, however, we do not have a timeframe at this time. For any feature requests to the dashboard, submit an idea request.

Are there plans to allow users to set the alt text in the popup when an image is included in Composer?

You can edit the caption of a Photo within Composer if your front-end settings have it enabled, but not the alt text. We don’t currently support this and it is not on the roadmap. However, we have created an idea for this and you may vote for this to be considered - https://ideas.arcxp.com/ideas/SB-I-516

Are there any SEO or performance case studies?

You can view our public case studies on our Arc XP Resources page. Here are a few regarding SEO and performance:

• https://www.arcxp.com/resources/customer_story/la_tercera/
• https://www.arcxp.com/resources/customer_story/el_financiero/

Are there any improvements regarding SEO and performance for Themes 2?

We are heavily invested in performance and improving Themes. Every client site has third-party scripts and custom code that may affect each site differently.

Is it possible to increase the limit of URLs for sitemap news file more than 100?

Content API has a limit of 100. There is no plan to increase at this time. We recommend using the Sitemap-Index for large scale sitemaps.

Recommended SEO tools:

• Screaming Frog - crawler to scan your site really fast to find any onsite technical issues - https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/
• Ahrefs - keyword research, competitive analysis, backlinks and more - https://www.ahrefs.com
• Google Search Console - performance insights for your website including, clicks, impressions, googlebot crawl activity and more - https://search.google.com/search-console/about
• PageSpeed Insights - now running Lighthouse v10, it can provide opportunities to improve site performance - https://pagespeed.web.dev/