Daily Search Forum Recap: March 10, 2025

Google’s John Mueller said he still recommends you have visible anchor text for your links in order to “provide more context for search engines.” Don’t just use title elements in the link attribute; make sure the link has actual visible anchor text.

This is just a random tip, make sure not to misconfigure Cloudflare, your content delivery network and/or your hosting server. I see way too many cases of this popping up and causing such a pain for SEOs to fix. All of a sudden, you might notice your rankings drop off a cliff on Google Search and your pages begin to drop out of the Google index. It is likely because you are blocking Google from crawling your site.

This week, Google announced yet another spam update, the fourth of the year, the September 2026 Google spam update. Prior to that, we reported on more Google Search ranking volatility. Google Search Console released multimodal search filters…