Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today… …

Google’s John Mueller admitted on Twitter that sometimes black hat SEO and risky practices work and you don’t always get caught. But he added that sometimes you can get caught and “not getting caught doesn’t mean it works.” But he …

Google My Business seems to have added a new business attribute named “crowd.” In this, you can mark you business as being LGBTQ+ friendly and a transgender safespace. We covered that Google showed the LGBTQ+ friendly on some businesses back …

Brodie Clark posted a poll on Twitter that has about a thousand responses, asking “which search engine has the best chance of competing with Google over the next 10 years?” The search engine that got the most votes was DuckDuckGo, …

Daniel Waisberg of Google asked on Twitter how would you use the data, if Google let you export more data from Google Search Console. Daniel wrote “Many people ask Google to expand the limits for exporting *Search performance data* (not …

First, sorry for the static in the beginning, it stops after 30 seconds. This week, we had another Google search ranking algorithm update to report on… …

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Google’s John Mueller said a bit ago in a video hangout that the author of an article is not a direct ranking factor. He said this when he was asked if it matters if you have a recognized and authoritative …