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Are pages that are found in the Google Search Console coverage report, under “excluded” and labeled as “Crawled – currently not indexed” a sign that there are quality issues with not just those pages but also the site? Maybe. John Mueller of Google responded to Ori Zilbershtein implying that this may be such a sign. […]

Last week we saw a poll about where SEOs go for help when they have an SEO problem. This week I see a poll from Carolyn Lyden on how most SEOs learned SEO. It seems like the vast majority of SEOs learned SEO hands-on, by getting their hands dirty and just doing the work. In

Yesterday, June 30th, there may have been an unconfirmed update, just two days after Google ran the spam update – which ran on the 28th and would have then been seen more on June 29th than the 30th. But who knows, maybe it ran into the 29th and what we are seeing are fluctuations due

Google seems to be testing a new flavor of the Question and Answer rich results in the mobile search results. Saad AK spotted Google showing a “forums” header above what looks like a Q&A rich results carousel in mobile search. He shared a bunch of screenshots on Twitter, here is one of those screenshots: This

Google is telling those who used the Google Ads API to make sure to migrate the Feed-based extensions to supported Asset-based extensions soon. I believe the deadline will be October 20, 2021. Also, Google announced the new {extensionid} ValueTrack parameter will be available beginning June 24, 2021. All existing Feed-based extensions will automatically migrate to

Google announced that it is changing the insufficient payment information for Google Merchant Center. Specifically Merchants will no longer be required to provide their accepted payment methods on their website to customers before the checkout process. This change began on June 28, 2021. Google did say that the payment methods must be present on the

Google has vastly expanded its help document on how various redirects impact your site’s performance in Google Search. The document even mentions “Crypto redirects” which to me seems like a new term but just means a way to communicate in normal language that a page was moved. You can find the revised redirects Google Search

Google announced that by the end of July 2021 it will be deprecating the broad match modifier (BMM) keywords. That means you will no longer be able to create new BMM keywords with the +keyword notation. Google said this is being done because both phrase and BMM keywords have adopted expanded coverage and updated matching

Google announced yesterday one of, if not, the first, use case for MUM – Multitask Unified Model – in search. Google did tell us they will let us know when it is being used and here it is. They used it “to identify over 800 variations of vaccine names in more than 50 languages in

I am not sure, but I think one of the restaurants or cafes in the Google Kirkland office, in Seattle, may have opened up for business again. The cupcakes we showcased yesterday came from there. But here is a photo of the Cookies Boutique by Ozzy showing restaurant workers at the Google office there. This