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

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Google’s John Mueller said that finding link schemes from PBNs (public blog networks) is easy and “nobody has to leak a PBN” to Google for Google to know about it. He said “they’re pretty obvious to the appropriate tools & …

Google’s John Mueller was asked if removing dates from articles would help with search rankings. John Mueller responded to that saying “even when you publish something without a date, Google still keeps time.” …

Google’s John Mueller confirmed again that Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance is not a signal Google uses for ranking web pages in Google Search. John said “I’m sure it can be useful for your site, but we don’t use …

This is a programming note that I will be 100% offline Monday and Tuesday… …

There is again significant chatter within the SEO forums and signs from the automated tracking tools of yet another Google Search update. We’ve seen unconfirmed weekend updates from Google week after week for the past few months now and we …

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… …

If you do a search for WNBA on its 25th anniversary you will get a nice easter egg in Google to celebrate. Try it out on you desktop browser or mobile browser by searching for [wnba]. …

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Just like Saved By The Bell was great for four seasons in 1989, it didn’t mean it would come back and be a success in 2020. Same with your website that ranked well in the early 2000s or even ranks …

Danny Sullivan of Google confirmed that Google has not released a new broad core update since the company last confirmed one in December of last year, December 2020. Danny said on Twitter “we haven’t had a broad core update. We …

While we had our typical weekend Google Search ranking update, we also saw a ton of chatter on Thursday morning and that is unusual. So there may have been two updates to Google Search this past week, one between May …

Nicolas Bouchand posted on Twitter that he is working on his thesis and selected SEO as the subject. He asked on Twitter “What do you think are the trends that will shake up the sector and that will absolutely have …

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

If you missed it, last week, Rachel Maddow from MSNBC complained on Twitter that the Google Ads were not labeled and jumping in and out. Danny Sullivan from Google responded that Google always labels its ads and it doesn’t sound …

Google seems like it will be migrating more data from the Google My Business Insights report to the Google My Business Performance report. Specifically, Google will be adding driving direction requests and website visits to the newish performance report. …