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 …

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

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Microsoft Advertising announced a new ad format for Bing Search named health insurance ads. Microsoft said advertisers are already seeing a 4X increase in return on ad spend (ROAS) and lower costs per acquisition (CPAs) with this new format. …

Google is testing a larger font and larger search bar in the mobile search interface. This was spotted by Brodie Clark, who posted two images on Twitter. I made those images into an animated GIF so you can visualize the …

Fabrice Canel from Microsoft said that Microsoft tries to check your site’s XML Sitemap file one per day. He said on Twitter “we attempt looking at sitemaps once a day.” …

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 …

Google’s John Mueller was asked if opening links in a new window versus the existing window (tab) would make a difference SEO or ranking wise in Google. John said no, there is no difference for ranking purposes. …

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 has updated its search quality raters guidelines… …

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Google’s John Mueller said when it comes to confusing Google around having different intent of content, it is more of an issue on the page-level and not on the site-level. John said “a lot of websites just have a mix …