Google has published its most recent Search Off The Record podcast, and it is filled with a lot of good nuggets like always, but I wanted to highlight one part of it where Gary Illyes from Google said that “there isn’t all that much trick in search.” Meaning, even for those that work inside Google, there aren’t that many ways to trick Google to rank your site better.
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