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One other little tidbit or nugget from the Search Central Live event was that Gary answered how many times Google changed its search algorithm due to SEOs gaming the system. Gary said in the past ten years, he thinks it was about four or five times, that he can remember. The question was brought up […]

Has there been a time where Google has said they no longer use a specific ranking signal? I mean, they said this like 20 years ago with maybe the meta keywords tag? Google said this with rel next/prev, Google News stock tickers and genre and meta keywords, authorship, stop using MapReduce and some other things.

Google’s Danny Sullivan said to start, when the Page Experience Update rolls out, it won’t be a massive change. It might grow in terms of importance over the years. But to start, Danny said “it shouldn’t be the case that overnight, we flip some type of switch and there’s a massive change.” He posted this

Google seems to be showing fewer featured snippets in the search results since February 19, 2021. All three tools that I am aware that track featured snippets all showed a significant decline in the percentage of search results with featured snippets. Although, as of this morning, RankRanger is showing a bit of a bounce back

Here is an Instagram photo and video from 2017 of a Googler hoverboarding at the Google office, I think the New York City office. He said on Instagram “That’s what I do when I’m office alone.” The office is pretty empty now, might be a good time to do it again? Here is the video:

Google’s John Mueller said that having mixed content on your site and getting mixed content warnings won’t result in your site being removed from Google Search. This seems pretty obvious but hey, I don’t think I covered this question. We said previously that the Chrome mixed content notifications do not impact Google Search and

Malte Ubl, a Technically a Software Engineer at Google, said he won’t be talking about any efforts around abuse and spam prevention for the upcoming Google Page Experience update. Specifically how some may try to fake the Chrome User Experience Report (CRUX) data for better or worse to manipulate rankings of their own site or

Google has re-announced the new partner program requirements after postponing the new requirements due to COVID and the huge backlash at the new rules. Now, Google said partners “have the flexibility to apply or dismiss performance recommendations based on your own assessment in order to meet a minimum optimization score of 70%.” Here are the

Gary Illyes from Google said in last night’s Google Central Live event that there is a benefit, I assume an SEO benefit, to having title tags longer than what is displayed in the search. He later added that you should keep the title tag “precise” to the topic of the page and do not worry

Some folks were complaining that SEO is to blame for the bloat on the web. Specifically when some sites that are so bloated with trackers and other add-ons that the sites are not only slow but slow down your computer. John Mueller from Google said on Twitter “there is no SEO reason for making such