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. Google’s Danny Sullivan said again that personalization is used in a super light …

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Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that the search company has no plans to separate out indexing and visibility controls specifically between Google News, Search, Discover or Top Stories. If you are in Search, you can be in the top …

Google has a new (I think new) filter in the Google Search Console Performance report named Cross-language Results. I have never seen this filter, but I suspect this is related to if Google Search will take other languages, translate them …

Aleyda Solis ran a super interesting poll on Twitter asking SEOs about their SEO project success rate. She asked “what percentage of the SEO Processes/Projects/Initiative that you work at end up having the “agreed/expected outcome” & are seen as a …

This week, we had not just one, but two different unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm updates – one on Saturday and one on Wednesday. Google said the link spam update that was suppose to be done rolling out about two …

Google seems to be testing a new feature in the Google search results named “suggested channel.” I personally cannot replicate this but he is a screen shot from Jonas Sickler on Twitter who spotted this last week. …

Google’s Danny Sullivan confirmed, again, that personalization in Google Search is an “extremely light” ranking signal. In fact, he said personalization is “fairly rare” to be used for ranking purposes. …