Spock Mueller At Google Dublin Marking The Spot

There are about 50 million people that identify as creators and the opportunities for them to monetize their content and form brand partnerships are endless. Let’s take a look at some of the changes some social media platforms have made in the last 2 months alone.  YouTube partners with Shopify to deliver shopping tools for brands, creators Instagram announces payments in chat Instagram subscriptions test adds 3 new features Pinterest Shopping adds 4 new features Twitter launches Branded Likes Twitter testing long-form Notes Meta launches new […]

When Google announced the new link spam update, a ton of confusion arose with that announcement. The confusion was mostly around do you need to change your nofollow links to rel=sponsored for affiliate or similar links. The answer is no, nofollow is fine and you won’t get in trouble for using nofollow instead of rel sponsored.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…