Craig Hordlow

Google has added a new section to its video best practices help document for SafeSearch and adult oriented content. The document was updated on June 3rd, after a big update to that document this past March.

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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…

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Microsoft Bing announced on Twitter that they are rolling out Bing Themes to the Bing search results pages. The company said “you can now personalize your search experience with 7 colorful themes on Microsoft Bing’s web search.”

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On Friday news broke that Moz has been acquired by iContact, subsidiary of J2 Global. The financial details of this acquisition were not disclosed and the news about this came to a shock to many, although, we all know the …

Google is testing a new carousel in the search results titled “trending searches.” This shows a carousel with images and query refinements based on your original query – that may show what searches related to your original query are trending.…

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In 2013, Google told us that it is not enough to disavow links if you want your unnatural link manual action to be reversed. Is that still true in 2021? The answer is probably yes.

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Google’s John Mueller posted a short #AskGooglebot video question and answer on indexing limits. In short, like we covered numerous times before, Google does not have a limit to what it can index, but Google does not have unlimited resources …

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.

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As you know, the Google June 2021 Core Update began rolling out at about 6:30pm ET on Wednesday, June 2, 2021 but the chatter within the industry was not at core update levels. Meaning, SEOs who track these changes didn’t …

John Shehata is the Global Vice Present of Audience Development Strategy & CRM at Condé Nast. John also founded NewzDash.com, an SEO software toolset for news publishers. But more importantly…

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Google is testing displaying a magnifying glass that overlays on the right bottom section of the mobile search results. When you scroll through the mobile search results, this magnifying glass icon shows up that you can click on to refine …

In 2019 Google came out with new rules and new types of link attributes, the new attributes were ugc and sponsored, to be companions with the nofollow link attributes. Google said back then it was to help Google understand links …

As more and more writers try to write using a more inclusive approach; specifically using inclusive language, does Google adapt to understand that language and rank that content as well to language that maybe is not that inclusive?

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The question of which anchor text does Google count when you have the same link multiple times on your page, linking to the same location, is not a new question. We have been covering it since before before 2008 and …

The past month or so was one of the most active months I’ve seen with Google Search in a while. We had a confirmed Google June 2021 core update, several unconfirmed algorithm updates, Google announced MUM, and Google told us …