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Both Microsoft (Bing) and Alphabet (Google) announced earnings last night and both had pretty big uplifts with their search advertising revenues and earnings. Microsoft was up 17% for its search advertising revenue category and Google was up 32% for its search advertising revenue category, year-over-year. The Microsoft earnings release said “search advertising revenue excluding traffic […]

Google has a few link attributes that allow you to tell Google not to pass any link signals from the link to the site you are linking to. There is the classic rel=”nofollow” and the newer rel=”ugc” and rel=”sponsored”. But no, there is no do follow or rel=”follow” attribute. Yes, sometimes SEOs will call a

I keep finding new photos of the Android statues at the Google offices in Mountain View, California. It seems like they are all masked. We had a red masked and blue masked and now here is a yellow masked Android statue. I found this one on Instagram. This post is part of our daily Search

Frank Sandtmann, an SEO consultant, sent me a screen capture of Microsoft Bing testing showing query refinements and search suggestions in a sticky footer user interface. As you scroll down the search results Bing shows you these “results related to” search query refinement options. Here is a GIF of it in action from Frank, I

Can you be more specific says Google Search with this new “more specific searches” box in the search results. Mordy Oberstein was being super vague with Google and Google shot back at him to be more specific and even gave him a list of samples on how to be more specific. In all seriousness, Google

Saad also spotted back in March Google testing showing that bell icon feature directly in the image search carousel box. The bell icon lets you tell Google you are interested in being pushed information about that topic via Google Discover and maybe Google Alerts (in the older days). We’ve seen the bell icon for a

On the coattails of the Google product reviews update, the Google product search results features seem to be getting larger. Saad AK and Glenn Gabe, amongst others, have shared numerous screen shots of the new product boxes in Google Search. I should say that the product reviews update has nothing to do with this, as

Google’s John Mueller reiterated on Twitter that consistency is the number one piece of SEO advice. He said last night on Twitter that “SEO lives and dies with consistency.” Here is that tweet in context: SEO lives & dies with consistency. — ???? John ???? (@JohnMu) April 26, 2021 In 2015, John Mueller said this

Google’s John Mueller described how Google is able to recognize an author and all of that author’s content and mentions across the web, without supporting authorship markup anymore. In short, John said Google can do this when all of the author’s articles link back to a central bio page or central location. This came up