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Year: 2021
Survey Says: Most SEOs Canonicalize Their Duplicate Content Issues
Sophie Brannon posted a Twitter poll asking SEOs “what do you do with your content duplication issues?” The survey had just under 1,000 responses, which is a lot for a Twitter SEO poll. The results showed that most SEOs canonicalize …
Google: Mobile & Desktop Pages Don’t Have To Match But They Must Fulfill The Same Purpose
Google’s John Mueller said again that your desktop pages and mobile pages do not need to match exactly. But what they really need to do is “fulfill the same purpose.” He said the mobile and desktop “pages don’t have to …
New Google Merchant Center & Manufacturer Center Sync
Google is sending out emails to those who use both Google Merchant Center and Google Manufacturer Center that they can now sync the data between the two platforms. The email says if you link the accounts Google will “continuously synchronize …
Google: Clicks On Newsletter Emails Don’t Help You Rank Better In Search
Google’s John Mueller said that no, clicks on newsletter emails do not help your SEO or help you rank better in Google Search. He did add that “it’s good to have multiple separate sources of traffic to your website, and …
Google Search Opens Complaint Thread For Title Changes
Google has opened a dedicated thread where you can post examples of poor titles that Google has created in lieu of your HTML title tags. The thread asked you to include the the URL of the page, the title shown, …
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 25, 2021
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 link spam update is finally done rolling out… …
Google Continues Test Of People Also Ask & People Also Search For In Autocomplete
Last September, in 2020, we reported that Google was testing the people also search for in the auto-complete search suggestions drop down. Well, those tests have not stopped. Here are more examples from Brodie Clark from the past week or …
Google Search Console Performance Reporting Is Currently Stuck
This morning I’ve been noticing a lot of complaints about the Google Search Console Performance report being delayed and data not fully being represented. It seems to be a global issue and even John Mueller of Google confirmed there is …
Google Confirms Titles Did Change To Not Use The Searcher’s Query
A week after Google made a change to the titles it produces in its search results, the search company confirmed it actually did make these changes. I mean, why didn’t Google just write about it when they first noticed it, …
Google Posts Can Now Appear On Third Party Sites Without Your Knowledge
Google now has a notice when you add Google Posts in Google My Business that those posts can appear not just on Google properties but third-party sites. Claire Carlile posted a screenshot of Google notifying her of this and asked …
Google My Business Products Approval Process
Google now may decide to review your Google My Business product uploads manually and approve or reject those. Usama Ali posted screenshots on Twitter of the this happening for his product uploads. …
Google Link Spam Update Took A Full Month To Roll Out
Google announced that the link spam update that initially began rolling out on July 26, 2021 is now done rolling out as of August 24, 2021. That is over a full-month of rolling for that update and two-weeks longer than …
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 24, 2021
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 made 4,500 changes to search in 2020, that is up from 3……
How to Release an Album So People Actually Want to Buy It
Sometimes I look around at the single-dominated music landscape and think I’m the only geek on the planet who still exclusively listens to full albums anymore. Then I remember that most serious musicians still release full albums, even if (or …
Google Keyword Planner Tool Not Showing Data
For the past 24-hours or so, the Google keyword planner tool within Google Ads has been broken. It is giving people errors and showing “no data” found responses. …