Duy Nguyen from Google’s search quality team said in the Google office hours video that Google has “algorithms to go after” those who post AI plagiarized content, then the algorithms can “demote site scraping content from other sites.” The question was asked at the 9:19 mark which was “How should content creators respond to sites […]
Duy Nguyen from Google’s search quality team said in the Google office hours video that “backlinks as a signal has a lot less significant impact compared to when Google Search first started out many years ago.” Du said this at the 6:08 mark in that video. I mean, this comes as no surprise to most […]
The new Google Business Profile interface in Google Search to update your local listing can show the previous location your business was listed at before you tried to move that location. I believe the old interface would show you a map pin of your current location as you try to move it but it would […]
Google is testing various headlines for the Local Service Ads. Two of them show the “Ads” label and one does not, while they all test different headlines for the ad listings. This was spotted by Len who posted this screenshot on Twitter: “See plumbers” versus “Here are plumbers” versus “50+ plumbers nearby” – I bet […]
For the past several weekends, I’ve been reporting about a Google search ranking algorithm update that hit on a Friday and continued throughout the weekend. Well, last weekend was the Thanksgiving holiday in the US and I did see some signs of a possible Google Search ranking algorithm update – but truth is, it is […]
In part one, we learned about Jeremy Meindl, why he loves pushing the line in SEO and how he never was caught with any of his SEO spam efforts. In part two we talk more about that, specifically, he said sometimes with Google what is old is new again. Sometimes he just pushes as hard […]
Just because some of us cannot get enough of Gary Illyes (of Google)’s smile – here he is smiling while eating some Japanese dishes, specifically tsukemen, soba, and tonkatsu. This was shared by Takeaki Kanaya on Twitter – so you can see them better there… #つけ麺ウィーク アゲイン！3年ぶりにGaryが日本に来たよ。ということでしばらくつけ麺、そば、トンカツの日々ま！ pic.twitter.com/WhmTQcOuAh — Takeaki Kanaya ★ 金谷 武明 (@jumpingknee) […]
Some of you may know that in the early days of Google, Google’s co-founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page would say Google Search was immune to search spam. Matt Cutts, the former Google search spam lead, said recently on Hacker News that he actually had to fight with the co-founders to prove that Google was […]
When you create a Google Business Profile and now go into creating service areas, Google may now offer you a list of suggested service areas in your region. Just be careful because these suggested service areas are based on your current location, not the location of the business. This was first spotted by Stefan Somborac […]
Google is testing a new design, layout, and user experience for the people so ask box in the Google Search results. This interface has results side by side and stacked on top and then when you click on a result, it loads the answer in a shaded box. This was spotted by Brodie Clark and […]