This week, we dove more into the Google May 2022 broad core update, stories of those hit, how Google looks at the data prior to the rollout and more. Google also hinted that useful nofollow links, despite the policy change in 2019, still don’t count for much of anything. Google suspended the job training rich […]
Google Search is testing a new design for the search bar menu items, where Google shows images, videos, news, etc under the search bar. Instead of the normal links with icons, Google is testing shading them in blue and grayish background button like colors. Here is a Screenshot from Brodie Clark (click to enlarge): Here […]
Google’s John Mueller responded to some concerns on Reddit about “toxic links.” He was asked where do these toxic links come from, in which he replied “Toxic links is all about selling tools.” He told the individual “don’t get hung up about it.” Yes, there are a few tools out there that help identify poor […]
You probably passed through the experience of checking a website or a blog post, clicking on a link to check extra information and seeing a broken page. It’s annoying, right? But, more than that: dead links are bad for a SEO strategy. Some of us may think that websites don’t have many broken links. If […]
Google said it has added a new help document for the use valid page metadata and also added a new section to the title link help document with troubleshooting. These additions were made this morning, May 10, 2022. New Troubleshooting Title Links Google added a new section to the current title link help document – […]
This week in search, a reporter uncovered that sketchy SEOs are making up fake lawyers using AI to send out fake DMCA requests demanding links to their sites. Google was accused of stealing content and not crediting this source for that content, well, it turned out, Google was the one being copied, not he other […]
Google’s John Mueller said there is nothing wrong with using the Google Search Console URL inspection tool to request indexing but the better route is to have Google discover those new URLs on that new site through external links. Google said it is simply better to have links to the site and for Google to […]
We know that links pointing to pages that do not exist, that 404 or some soft 404, are links that are not counted by Google – that is not new. But John Mueller of Google spoke about how sometimes you can redirect old 404 pages and that link may pass to the new page, even […]
As you know, Google has a webmaster guideline against widget links (since 2016), despite what some SEOs want to tell yourself. But the good news, and we knew thisthat Google will likely just ignore those links and not penalize your site for those links today. In 2017, John Mueller said Google will probably just automatically […]
Is there a speed difference between using absolute versus relative links and if so, does it matter to Google. I am pretty sure there is no speed difference and I am confident that either way, it won’t matter for Google SEO reasons. This was a new SEO question that I’ve never seen before, the question […]