While Google has a clear definition of what keyword stuffing is on its spam policies page, Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, explained that it is not about the number of times a word is repeated on a page. Rather, it is about how the words on the page read, he explained. Danny Sullivan wrote on […]
Bing seems to be testing showing the number of people who visited a website listed in a search ad. The ad in the Bing Search results says X “visitors in the past month.” Here is a screenshot that Khushal Bherwani posted on X of this feature: Google has shown in search results if you visited […]
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Seems Google is once again testing removing the estimated number of search results under the search bar. You know, the line that says “About X results in Y seconds” Google is testing removing that again. We reported something similar in March 2022 and before that in July 2016. In this case, it seems to be […]
Google Shopping results have shown top highlights for products for some time but now it seems Google is testing showing the number of available product highlights in the carousel of product results in Google Search. Shameem Adhikarath posted a number of examples of this on Twitterthis one shows the number of specific product highlights, aka […]
Google Search is testing removing the estimated number of search results figure you typically see under the search bar after you conduct a search query. Google tested this back in 2016 and I guess Google is testing it again. Initially, when I was first told about this test by Punit on Twitter and then Eli […]
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that the number of links is not a useful metric for SEO purposes. He also said that by the time you calculate all of your links that number has probably changed – so it’s not a good use of your time. John wrote that “there is no way to […]
On September 24th and 25th, Google had an unconfirmed but rather large update of the Google search ranking algorithm. Google hosted its big search event called Search On. Google talked about adding MUM in more places in Search and a number of other features. Google said that it is moving away from the number of […]