Did you know that SEO bloggers, like myself, are the reason you see fewer and less nuanced responses from Google Search reps? John Mueller from Google said so on Reddit, where he wrote, “**** the SEO news/bloggers, but it also means I can’t reply to things with nuance publicly.” Of course, I, an SEO blogger, … Read more
As a reminder, Google has reiterated that when Google receives a search spam report, it does not take direct action against the violation or violating site. Instead, Google uses that feedback to its spam detection systems that hopefully will take action algorithmically in the future against the violation. Danny Sullivan, the Google Search Liaison, reiterated … Read more
Google’s John Mueller recommended that you do not disallow your internal footer links. A Reddit thread asked, “Should I disallow some pages that are in footer?” John replied, “If you do this, future-you will be annoyed by the problems current-you is creating.” Google has often said not to nofollow internal links, calling PageRank sculting a … Read more
Fabrice Canel, the Principal Product Manager at Microsoft Bing, said, “Bing usage extends beyond what many search engine optimizers (SEOs) may realize.” He is basically saying that Bing Search is more important than most of us are giving them and maybe we should consider Bing more when it comes to investing in our efforts Fabrice … Read more
Google’s John Mueller asked if it would be all right not to list a Contact Us and About Us page on their website. The reason is, they would only add it if Google wanted it (but don’t do things for Google, Google said), but not for users. John Mueller responded, “I can think of good … Read more
The updated Google Search Quality Raters guidelines last week and added an example of what it considers the “lowest quality pages.” In section 4.7 it states the only mention of using AI and writes, “The website terms of use states that “some articles” are generated by artificial intelligence and may have errors or be out … Read more
Google accused the U.S. government of wanting to punish it for being more successful than its competitors. The company made the comments in an unsealed post-trial brief submitted to a DC federal judge as part of its ongoing legal battle with the U.S. Department of Justice, which has accused it of unlawfully monopolizing the search … Read more
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Danny Sullivan, the Google Search Liaison, in response to another SEO hit piece by The Verge said that author bylines and bios do not help a site or piece of content rank better. Sullivan also added Google also does not check out the credentials for ranking purposes. Sullivan said on X, “Author bylines aren’t something … Read more
Gary Illyes from Google explained how Google Search may or may not handle special characters within Google Search. He explained this in the latest Google SEO office hours at the 16:10 mark. Gary was asked, “How does Google handle special characters like the superscript e in search results.” For example, a Latin letter E with … Read more
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