Google updated its Google Discover guidelines to specify that it won’t show “content that’s not desired or that might confuse readers.” Google specifically gave these examples of content that it might not show in Google Discover: Job applications Petitions Forms Code repositories Satirical content without any context Here is the paragraph
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The big news this week is that a new confirmed Google search ranking algorithm hit the shelves today, Google named it the Google Product Reviews Update, I tell you all about it in this video. Google updates the Google Discover guidelines to say it won’t show content that is not desired or might confuse readers.
Google’s Pascal Birchler, Developer Relations Engineer, posted a nice video on how to get started with Web Stories. The video goes through what Web Stories are, how to create Web Stories, and how to rank well and get traffic using your Web Stories. Here is the video: Here is what was covered and when: 00:30
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Struggling to find the right tactics to promote your business? Here’s a list of tactics we’ve used at Ahrefs to grow +65% year-on-year. They’re mostly free. You can use them to promote your business too. Get listed on popular directories Blog regularly Create YouTube videos Repurpose your content on multiple channels Build an email list Run
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The homepage is often the most visited page on a website, which makes it highly important for both new and returning users. Homepages are a company’s chance to make a good first impression on new users and provide everyone who lands on your site with the information they are looking for. If you are exploring
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Ahref, the popular SEO link tool, posted on Twitter that it will be giving some folks some of their Swag. They wrote “Who wants this pretty box with some Ahrefs’ swag and goodies?” What do you need to do? Ahrefs said “Just tell us which Ahrefs’ feature is your favourite. We’ll select 10 people at
A site owner on Reddit asked if there is a way to remove his site from Google Search in a specific country, specifically Indonesia. John Mueller of Google said there really is not way of doing that, he said “you can’t reduce your rankings in one country in Google.” John added that “you could set
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The other day Google posted a blog post named the latest local shopping trends; local is now digital. In this blog post, Google shared a lot of trends the company tracked with local searches in 2020 due to COVID-19. Here are some of those data points in bullet format below: Searches for “local” + “business(es)”
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Google is now able to show in the “people also search for” query refinement feature local business listings and map results. Valentin Pletzer noticed this and posted a screenshot (click to enlarge) on Twitter which you can see here. Valentin said “”People also search for” suggesting maps locations.” Then Dominik Schwarz responded that he also
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Google has posted a new content policy within its Google Posts help documents that specifically disallows businesses to add phone numbers in the content of their Google Posts. Joy Hawkins posted on Twitter “Google clarifies phone numbers are not allowed in Google My Business posts.” Google Posts show up on your local knowledge panel in
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