Google has launched a new visual elements of Google Search gallery that documents some of the more popular search features in Google Search. Now we no longer have to guess or make up names for some of the Google Search features. Google started with 22 of these search features, but Google plans to keep adding […]
Danny Sullivan, the Google Search Liaison, said on mastodon that your content does not need to be on one topic, one niche topic, for it to rank well. You can write about various topics on your site. The main thing, Danny said, was that you should write content however you want for your people and […]
Microsoft announced that if you do financial service ads in its network, like on Bing Search, in the UK, you will need to be verified in early 2023. “Starting early 2023, we’ll allow only advertisers duly authorized by the UK Financial Conduct Authority ( FCA) to present regulated financial promotions in the UK,” wrote. Advertisers […]
Google’s John Mueller said there is no score or threshold for the Google helpful content update. He said on mastodon“There is no “HCS score” or threshold at which HCS [helpful content score] would switch from unhelpful to helpful for SEO. This should surprise no one, as this is similar messaging Google had about SEO compliance […]
Google has spoken about being on the edge of indexing is similar to Google thinking those pages are on the edge of quality – they seem to go hand in hand. If Google does not deem the page to be high quality enough to be indexed, it won’t be indexed. John said the other day […]
Part one other part two with Jeremy Meindl was more on black hat SEO stuff and now in part three, we get into more white hat topics talking about CRM targeting. Then in the last part, we spoke more about his failures over the years. Jeremy explained a lot of times, every failure is an […]
John Mueller of Google has always downplayed the importance of HTML sitemaps over the years, he is a fan of XML sitemaps, but HTML sitemaps, not so much. On mastodon the other day, he really showed his dissatisfaction with HTML sitemaps by saying that HTML sitemaps “should never be needed.” He wrote, “I changed my […]
Gary Illyes from Google loves posting his PSAs on Mastodon. His next PSA is that if you are using a CDN or cloud hosting service, then make sure to test up a routine test to ensure that the service is not blocking Googlebot or other search engine crawlers that you want to crawl and index […]
It is that time of year when content creators take their content that has been performing well and updates it from the 2022 edition to the 2023 edition. But updating the references of 2022 to 2023 is not enough, and Google says only do that when you make a significant update to that content. This […]
Earlier this week, Google announced it has begun to roll out the new topics + sign refinement Options in the English/US on mobile search results. But it seems Google is also testing them. They are not fully live on the desktop search results. Glenn Gabe spotted this and posted a video cast of it on […]