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Aleyda Solis posted a Twitter poll last week after Google published its suggestions around the link spam update and nofollow vs rel sponsored attributes. The poll showed that SEOs are very split around how they will or will not handle sponsored links. 1/3rd said they will follow the links (not add any nofollow or rel

Here is one of those classic John Mueller responses, where the Googler said “So, asked differently, if you remove a part of your website, will that website rank differently? Yes, of course it will. It’s a different website afterwards.” Classic. It is one of those more obvious question and answers but sometimes rewording it makes

The Google Search Console Performance report API does not include Google Discover data. We’ve known that for a while. But the question is why? John Mueller of Google said the reason is “partially because there’s no notion of “query”.” In March 2020, John Mueller asked for you, the SEO community, to let him know why

Microsoft Bing has a box and section in its search results named “did you know.” It seems Bing shows more study help sections in this box. Frank Sandtmann, a German based SEO, sent this to me but I can replicate it myself. Here is a screenshot, click to see full size: Here is a GIF

Here is a photo from the Google Chicago office from a month or so ago, where you can see the graffiti on the walls, the design on the other wall and these hip swing chairs. This was shared on Instagram and kind of made me feel a bit more relaxed and calm for some reason.

Google has removed the generic rich result type from the Google Search Console performance reports and API. Google told us this was going away back in May and today it is now officially gone. Google even reminded us of this this morning on Twitter saying “Reminder: “We will keep supporting the search appearance until August

Microsoft Bing seems to be testing a new chat feature in its search results. Sunny Ujjawal posted a screen shot of this on Twitter, that I cannot replicate. Bing pops open a chat box on the right side of the search results that says “Hello! What would you like to talk about today?” It then

Google has added technical, content, and quality guidelines to the Math solver guidelines help documentation. The company also removed solution page markup instructions. Google also said it is fine to remove any existing solution page markup. The new guidelines are over here and here is what was added: Technical Guidelines Add MathSolver structured data to

Google announced that it will begin enforcing that Google Merchant Center merchants use Manufacturer Part Number (MPN) and accurate ones. Then in September of 2021 Google will disapprove merchants

In part one of my interview with Udit Mhatre, the Senior SEO Manager at DuMont Project, we talked about doing SEO in India vs the US. How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Google SERP Now Udit said he is spending a lot of time studying how RankBrain and BERT work and he is seeing the quality