John Mueller, a Search Advocate at Google, was asked when you should use the link disavow too. He said on Twitter“Essentially — if you weren’t buying links, don’t disavow.” So don’t disavow unless you were buying links in the history of your website. Here are those tweets: Essentially — if you weren’t buying links, don’t […]
Gary Illyes from the Google Search team said on LinkedIn that you should avoid using LLMs and AI for diagnosing potential SEO issues or other issues with your site. Gary wrote, “don’t use them for diagnosing potential issues with it.” Gary wrote, “LLMs have a very high wow factor, but they have no clue about […]
Google has updated its help documentation for canonicalization. It removed a line about syndicated content and also updated a line about noindex to prevent selection of a canonical page within a single site. But Google added a whole section around not using a canonical tag for syndicated content anymore; more on that below. If you […]
Google’s John Mueller said people searching for your brand name and a keyword phrase does not help you rank better in Google Search or perform better SEO-wise. So having people search for your brand name followed by a keyword phrase won’t help you rank better. I know this is probably obvious to some, but sometimes […]
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that it is an SEO myth to say you can use the nofollow attribute on links to hoard your links. He said, “You don’t hoard anything when you make links nofollow.” “It’s a common SEO myth,” he added. Some feel they can control how Google passes your link equity […]
Group of teenage friends using mobile phones to communicate with college students – Diverse teens … [+]Watching phones share content through social media platforms. Youth, friendship, and technology. getty It’s a shame to confess, but my vanity plate is mine. Be careful what you think. It was included with your vehicle. I love it, actually […]
Famed YouTuber and excellent tech reviewer, Marques Brownlee, posted a poll on Twitter to his 6 million followers asking would you rather use Google as it exists now or Bing with ChatGPT added. The poll had over 320,000 submissions and about 59% said they would rather use Google now. Here is that poll on Twitter: […]
A strong online presence is key to building long-lasting marketing success. Ahrefs and Semrush are two tools that can help you get there. Running a small business, managing a digital agency, or getting a startup off the ground is no small feat. Aside from all the business decisions you have to make, learning how to… […]
Apps that use third-party Twitter to advertise have seen their businesses go up in flames getty Twitterrific, a third-party Twitter application developer is appealing to customers for refunds after it was removed from the market. A sudden change to Twitter’s policy means that third-party Twitter clients are now banned. Consequently, Twitterrific and other popular apps […]
Google’s John Mueller was asked about the impact of changing the author’s name on an article. John gave three pieces of advice in response to the question, (1) use author annotations, (2) rewritten content should use the new author’s name and (3) do not randomly change author names. This was posted on mastodon where the […]