Did you know that Pandora is the largest ad-supported streaming service in the US? Yep! And many musicians who use CD Baby are getting paid significant Pandora royalties. Obviously you want to get your music onto Pandora. Then you’ll …
Day: May 4, 2021
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 4, 2021
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today… …
Google AdSense Pauses Related Search Experiments
Google announced that is is temporarily pausing the ability to create custom search style experiments for your related search styles in your Google AdSense account. Google said it hopes to bring this feature back by early July 2021. …
Google: Rel External, Noopener & Noreferrer Do Not Impact Your SEO
Google’s John Mueller confirmed that using a rel=external, rel=noopener and/or a rel=noreferrer have no impact on your Google search rankings or SEO. John said on Reddit that there is “no effect” by adding those link attributes to your hyperlinks. …
Most SEOs Use DNS Or HTML Verification In Google Search Console
Google offers numerous ways to verify your website with Google Search Console. Jackson Lo asked on Twitter which is your preferred method and without surprise, most SEOs said that they prefer DNS and HTML tag verification over the others. …
Verizon To Sell Yahoo & AOL For $5 Billion After Buying Each For ~$5 Billion
In 2015 Verizon bought AOL for about $4.4 billion while AOL was under Tim Armstrong’s leadership. Then in 2016, Verizon bought Yahoo for about $4.83 billion while Yahoo was under Marissa Mayer’s leadership. Now, in 2021, Verizon is selling 90% …
May 2021 Google Webmaster Report
Last month in the Google webmaster, SEO and search world was pretty busy to say the least. We had a few unconfirmed Google updates but on top of that we had the product reviews update rollout and the delay of …
Google Search Console Stops Reporting On Scroll To Text
Google has stopped displaying the scroll-to-text data in the reporting within Google Search Console’s performance report. It started showing this August 2020 but now Google is no longer showing this information in Search Console. …
Local SEOs Not Seeing Unusual Google Local Ranking Fluctuations
Over the past week, actually, starting since Friday, April 23rd, the BrightLocal tracking tool has been showing very high fluctuations and volatility in the local pack results in Google Maps and Google Search. But the local SEO community is not …
Google Advice On How To Optimize Images While Not Hurting Image Search Rankings
Google’s John Mueller posted a great thread on Twitter about considerations around how to make your images more optimized, so that your pages load faster, while also taking into account how that might impact your rankings in Google Image Search. …
