September 19, 2016 | Posted by Shay Harel Late last week our SERP Feature tool tracked an odd shift in the number of Image Boxes appearing on Page One of the SERP. Taking place on the desktop SERP (to the exclusion of mobile), that little row of pictures, known commonly as Image Box fell from showing … Read more
September 27, 2017 | Posted by Shay Harel Dearly beloved we are gathered here today, on Google’s very own birthday, to announce the departure of the Search Box SERP feature from the face of the earth. In less dramatic terms, Google has removed its Search Box feature from the SERP on both desktop … Read more
![Disavowing The Disavow Tool [Case Study] – How a site owner finally removed a disavow file with 15K+ domains, stopped continually disavowing links, and surged back from the dead](https://www.gsqi.com/marketing-blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/06/disavow-case-study-lg.jpg "Disavowing The Disavow Tool [Case Study] – How a site owner finally removed a disavow file with 15K+ domains, stopped continually disavowing links, and surged back from the dead")
There aren’t many topics in SEO as controversial as disavowing links. Ever since Google introduced the ability to disavow links, there has been a ton of confusion about how to use the disavow tool, what types of links should be disavowed, when to ignore the disavow tool altogether, and more. Then add third-party tools that … Read more
We know the Google Indexing API should be used for just job postings and live-streaming content. If you use it for other content, it just won’t do what you want. A Black Hat World thread seems to confirm that it doesn’t work for other content types. The SEOs in that thread are discussing whether it … Read more
Google has released its annual ads safety report, which showed that Google removed 53% more ads this year and in the previous year and 67% increase from two years ago. Google removed over 5.2 billion ads, restricted over 4.3 billion ads and suspended over 6.7 million advertiser accounts in 2022. I like to compare these … Read more
Google’s John Mueller posted a clarification on how and when Google processes the removal requests, or exclusion requests, you make in your robots.txt. The action is not taken when Google discovers the change in your robots.txt, but rather after first the robots.txt is processed and then the specific URLs that are impacted are individually reprocessed … Read more
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