Daily Search Forum Recap: March 3, 2023

Yahoo posted on Twitter under its Yahoo Search account, “Just popping in to remind everyone that we did search before it was cool. BRB making it cool again.” Is that some sort of tease that Yahoo is about to announce something big with web search?

Google’s John Mueller was asked if the button attribute is treated like a link attribute. The answer was a straight forward, “no.” John said on Twitter “buttons aren’t links and don’t inherently have urls attached to actions, so we wouldn’t use them for crawling or otherwise.”

Welcome to 2023, and with that, here is our Google webmaster report for 2023 – where we summarize the bigger Google SEO-related changes in the past month. The big items were the release of the December 2022 helpful content update and the December 2022 link spam update.