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When Google announced the new link spam update, a ton of confusion arose with that announcement. The confusion was mostly around do you need to change your nofollow links to rel=sponsored for affiliate or similar links. The answer is no, nofollow is fine and you won’t get in trouble for using nofollow instead of rel […]

Google was asked if you have an English version of your site for years and years and then expand the site to France. So you create an FR subdomain or subfolder for the French users. Does the English version signals pass through to the French version of the site? Gary Illyes from Google said generally

On Monday, Google announced a new algorithm update named the link spam update. I’ve been following the SEO chatter both in the public white hat and black hat forums, and the chatter is super limited. Very few SEOs are saying they saw ranking declines or improvements since the announcement. But now, I see some of

John Mueller from Google said it is wrong to say that “Edu domains tend to have a ton of outbound links, and as such, Google ignores a big chunk of them.” He said “People who focus on .edu links usually have bigger problems to worry about, but I’ve certainly never said what you’re suggesting.” In

Here is a photo Google shared of the Super G Google logo in a water drop off a needle. Google explained more on Instagram how the photo and image was created. Google wrote @f.stop_1.8 created this image using a Pixel 3XL and shared with us how he captured this moment: “I first opened a Google

Apple seems to have relaunched what as known as Apple Maps Connect to Apple Places. Apple Maps Connect launched in 2014 but as of this past Friday, I am told, Apple rebranded it to Apple Places and Apple Business Register. Andy Simpson posted about this on Twitter the other day after hearing about the change,

Google added sustainability and eco certifications to the top of the hotel listing attributes options. Nevena Ivanova spotted this and shared the screenshot below on Twitter. Nevena wrote “Sustainability and Eco certifications were added to the top of the list. Not seeing them published on the live pages yet.” Here is that screenshot showing the

Both Alphabet, Google’s parent company and Microsoft, Bing’s parent company, released earnings last night. Both companies reported significant increases in ad revenue from search and other areas from last year to this year. Google had a 69% increase year over year from $29.8 billion to $50.4 billion in the Google Advertising column of the earnings

Google Ads emailed a bunch of advertisers yesterday morning about new surcharges to be added to your Google Ads bills for ads served in certain countries. Google has been doing this for some time but Google added a slew of new countries to the list that it will start taking on 2% to 5% in

Google seems to be testing a new attribute or label for displaying local business listings. The new label is named “areas served” and shows you what regional areas that business serves. I personally cannot replicate this but Ben Fisher spotted it and posted this screenshot on Twitter: When you click on Austin in this example,