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Just another reminder that if you spam people asking to buy links or other link schemes, Google will potentially use that email and the sites listed in that email against you. John Mueller of Google said on Twitter the other day “Yes, we do use these kinds of lists to check our existing manual actions […]

Search Engine Land reported that Google told them that Google Partners can now keep their existing status and partner badges through February 2022. This is after postponing and then lessening the requirements of this program last year. Carolyn Lyden wrote on Search Engine Land “Any Google Partners who meet the new February 2022 Partner requirements

We may have seen a Google local search ranking update on Tuesday, June 8th. The BrightLocal tracking tool showed significant changes and volatility on June 8th, with a bit of heat also on June 6th and June 9th. Here is what the tool looks like, showing a big 4.10 hit on Tuesday: If you drill

So while about half of you call Google Ads, Google AdWords, only 20% of you call Google Search Console, Webmaster Tools. I ran a poll for both to see if the new branding is sticking and clearly, it takes time but the new brand does for the most part stick. Google rebranded Webmaster Tools (previously

It was a pretty busy week, but to start off, I posted my big monthly Google webmaster report – catch up there on the month. Google released the June 2021 core update on June 2nd, but most SEOs didn’t really feel it until Saturday June 5th or Sunday June 6th and they did indeed feel

The New York Times published a story on how Google has been working on and continues to work on algorithms aiming at preventing sites that extort people from ranking well in Google Search. The Google Predator algorithm (which I am kind of calling it) aims to remove slanderous content from appearing in Google’s search results

Here is another photo from the Google office in Zurich from Martin Splitt from a while ago. It is of the outside area picnic tables where the chairs are made of tree stumps. Martin wrote then “enjoying the sunny spring in Zurich on the Google roof terrace. He posted this in 2019 on Instagram. This

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that it is a bad idea for Google to try to rank its ranking factors. To say content is more or less important than links, or to say one search ranking factor is more important than an other, was a “was a bad idea for us to frame” it

It has been almost three years since Google rebranded Google AdWords to Google Ads and still almost half of us still refer to it as AdWords or Google AdWords and not Google Ads. I’ll be honest, I call it Google Ads now but I write it a lot, so that helps. But to be fair,