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We’ve heard of Google ranking copied scraped content before and even getting the canonical wrong. But here is a clear night and day example of a site that copied another site completely, with the logo and everything but the URLs and Google Search thought the copied site is the original site. Adarsh Verma shared this

Martin Splitt of Google announced and confirmed that he and his colleagues are in the middle of the planning stages for the 2021 line up of Google Search virtual events and conferences. He said on Twitter “Good news, everyone! We are in the middle of setting up a bunch of virtual events (including, but not

Here is a SEO new question I don’t think I’ve seen before. Someone asked if you need to link to all your pages from your home page. The answer is obviously no but not all new SEOs or site owners know this. John Mueller of Google said on Twitter “No, you don’t have to link

Here is an old photo found on Instagram from 2017 at the Google Dublin office of a yellow pool table and woman in pink boxing gloves. I don’t think boxing and pool go together but I can be wrong. More can be found on Instagram. This post is part of our daily Search Photo of

Google has updated the index coverage report in Google Search Console with more “more fine-grained” status and categories. The change will cause some of the errors or statuses to “relabeled with the new, more specific categories,” Google said. The example Google gave was that the “crawl anomaly [status] is no longer reported, and has been

Google’s John Mueller responded to a concern in the Reddit forums that when it comes to the Salesforce Commerce Cloud, the only real way to use a 404 page not found, is not to use a 404 but a 410 status code. John Mueller of Google said “404 is fine. 410 is fine,” trying to

Google seems to be categorizing and labeling news articles in mobile search by intent, such as interviews or other intents. Valentin Pletzer shows a screen shot of this in action. I am not sure if this is new but it is interesting to see Google automatically assigning these labels to articles. Here is the screen

Since last March 2020, Google has been giving us a heads up about the Google Ads team doing some sort of verification for your Google Ads account. We learned a bit more in April but now I am seeing advertises getting emails from Google that says “start identity verification by February 6, 2021.” Amalia Fowler

Here is episode 102 with industry vet Phillip Thune. Phillip Thune’s Deep History In Search: Phillip Thune is the current CEO of Textbroker and has been for over 10 years, but he goes back further in the search space including working for FindWhat in early 2000s. FindWhat, also known as Miva, was a competitor of

Danny Sullivan of Google confirmed on Twitter that the search company launched the subtopics ranking feature or algorithm in mid-November 2020, just weeks after announcing it at the Search On event in October 2020. Subtopics according to the announcement is a (machine learning) way for Google to “understand subtopics around an interest, which helps deliver