This is just a reminder that despite Google saying the helpful content update will one day be able to find hidden gems in its search results, it does not yet do that. We thought Google would launch it with the last helpful content update, but Google did not. When we covered the launch of the […]
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This week in search, Google finished rolling out the September 2023 helpful content update, which seemed to target SEO-first, search engine-first content in a big way. Google won’t be rolling back that update, if you were wondering. Google SGE got an update, too, with new, improved responses, safer responses, and also the “about this result” […]
Today is Google’s official 25th birthday and to celebrate Google has a special Doodle that showcases some of Google’s early Google logos. It progresses to show you the old to the current official Google logos. Google wrote, “Let’s take a walk down memory lane to learn how we were born 25 years ago…” “Today’s Doodle […]
There is a fun new Google Search Off the Record podcast to listen to with John Mueller and Gary Illyes from the Google Search team. The short is that quality impacts everything related to Google’s search systems, from sitemaps, crawling, indexing, ranking and more. But they also go into large and old sites that may […]
Google’s Universal Analytics 3, which was supposed to stop collecting data over a week ago, on July 1st, is still collecting data for most, if not all, UA3 profiles. Every UA3 profile I have access to that is still properly set up, it still collecting data. I even posted a poll last week asking if […]
For the past 20 years, I’ve seen the SEO line; well, this SEO trick that is against Google’s guidelines works for this website, why shouldn’t I do it for my website? John Mueller of Google responded to one of those on mastodonsaying it is simply a gamble and not a long-term strategy. This specific response […]
The other day we reported how Google will be releasing an update to the helpful content system that can identify “hidden gems” deep within the web and promote that in the Google Search results. As Glenn Gabe points out, that means that the helpful content system can now not only demote unhelpful content but now […]
Every year Google releases its web spam report showing how much better the search company got at fighting search spam. This year is no different but here, Google is showing how successful SpamBrain was at making big strides in fighting search spam. Here are some high level numbers that Google shared in its 2022 report: […]
So far, Google’s official stance on using AI to write content is just fine, assuming that content was not written to manipulate the search results. If the content is useful, helpful and quality, it doesn’t matter if a machine wrote it or a human. But John Mueller of Google doesn’t seem too positive about the […]
Google’s John Mueller is no longer recommending you verify all the variations of your domain with Google Search Console. Instead, he said, keep it simple and verify using domain verification. Why is he no longer recommending you verify all the property types, www, non-www, HTTP, https, etc? Because he said on Reddit, “in practice you’ll […]