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Google Replace Says Automatically Generated Content material In opposition to Tips When Supposed To Manipulate Search Rankings

Google has updated the webmaster guidelines document to add that automatically generated content is against the guidelines only when it is “intended to manipulate search rankings.” This was added to the main webmaster guidelines here the other day. However the specific document has said for the past couple of years the same language, “where it’s […]

Google could replace webmaster pointers in 2022

Everyone’s panicking – Google may not only be making major updates to the Google Webmaster Guidelines, they’re also renaming the guidelines. Google’s Gary Illyes said that over time the Webmaster Guidelines had become confusing and a bit outdated and needed updating. He said this in the last Look for Off The Record podcast about 15 […]

Google Search Quality Rating Guidelines Not Designed for SEOs

Google’s John Mueller has a short post on the subject. posted Twitter that needs to be emphasized. He said, “However, the guidelines for quality assessors are not guidelines for SEOs.” We often forget that these Search Quality Assessment Guidelines are intended for search quality evaluators, and are not specifically designed as guidelines for SEOs. However, […]

Steady scrolling, penguin particulars, high quality score tips, Search Console and extra

It’s that time of the month again that I post the Google Monthly Webmaster Report. This last month has been filled with several unconfirmed google updates – No I am not crazy. Google told us that Penguin not only ignores spam links, it can distrust the whole page. After over a year, Google Updated the […]

Frequent Google algorithm updates, high quality assessor pointers up to date, IndexNow with Bing & Yandex & extra

First, excuse the noise at the beginning, it stops after 30 seconds. This week we had another update to the Google search ranking algorithm to report, but at least Semrush’s Mordy Oberstein has proven that I’m not crazy about reporting these updates. Google updated its search quality rating policy document, which was last updated about […]

Google will replace its Search Quality Rating Guidelines on October 19, 2021

After over a year without updating the Google Search Quality Rating Guidelines – Google made several updates to the document yesterday, October 19, 2021. The last update was on a little over a year ago October 14, 2020. This time the document has been expanded from 175 to 172 pages – i.e. shortened a little. […]

Google says submitting to directories, submitting articles, and bookmarking are in opposition to its tips

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter Directory submissions, article submissions, and bookmarking links in general violate Google’s Webmaster Guidelines. He said that they are generally considered artificial links by Google and so you should probably avoid a link building strategy that uses these. The truth is, I don’t know of many SEOs who still use […]