SEO

Google has been posting notices in the Google Ads and Google My Business (as well as other products) help areas that phone and other support areas may be slow or unavailable. Google said this is “in light of COVID-19” challenges. We should…
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Google’s John Mueller said there is currently no official “mechanism to block indexing of a part of a page.” There are “hacky ways” he said but nothing official from Google like a googleon/googleoff tag that is supported only for the…
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Spammy links. We’ve all had them. Some of us experienced them once or twice while some are less fortunate. Some of them are even considered as negative SEO attacks. They’re one of the most annoying and burdensome tasks that we, as SEOs and…
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We reported last week that Googlers are being encouraged to work from home and many cancelled speaking events. It seems like Google has grounded international travel for its employees. John Mueller from the Google Search Relations team…
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Digital marketing as a discipline has matured and encompasses a standard set of components, though best practices within those components continue to evolve. Looking at the future of digital marketing, it continues to consume a larger…
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There is a site out there claiming that Google has given it some sort of AI ranking contract. Thus this company has an advantage in helping you rank higher in Google. It does not, John Mueller of Google said on Twitter “They don’t. This is…
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Google has announced that by September 2020 all sites will be crawled and indexed by Google using mobile-first indexing. We reported early that this would happen by end-of-year but this blog post from Google says this change will happen by…
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Google’s John Mueller confirmed that from an SEO point of view, linking to an HTTP URL, instead of an HTTPS URL is fine. Google won’t penalize or downgrade your site if you link externally to a non-secure page. Of course, from a user point…
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John Mueller from Google was asked if Google does anything special for Shopify, since it is such a popular e-commerce platform. John responded “We generally don’t have special search algorithms to help any particular CMS.” He added “I…
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While some things will always stay the same like using relevant titles and linking to external sources other elements continue to evolve in a never-ending spiral. What’s the biggest SEO ecommerce update in 2020? Google (as well as other…
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