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Google’s John Mueller again said that dropping links in forums for SEO purposes won’t help you rank better in Google. In response the Reddit thread question “Is Forum Posting Still Work As Link Building Method in SEO?” John Mueller said “No.” The person who wrote the question added “I want to create good backlinks for […]

Earlier this week, Brett Bodofsky spotted a label in the Google Ads demographics tab that said “signal.” He wasn’t sure what it was, and honestly, it seems no one else was either. So we asked Ginny Marvin of Google what it means and she said “it indicates optimized targeting is enabled.” Here is a screenshot

Google has confirmed the July 2021 core update is “effectively complete” rolling out but what does that really mean. We saw spikes for the July core update on July 2nd and July 9th and maybe even on the 12th. Google confirmed that local results are not impacted by core updates. Posts for Google Knowledge panels,

As you know, John Mueller of Google has consistently preached out important consistency is when it comes to your web site for SEO purposes. He has said this numerous times. The purpose is for you not to confuse search engines and tell search engines clearly and consistency about your site content, architecture, URLs and all

 GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Welcome to the SEO planning week on Voices of Search! This week Advisor to Searchmetrics and SEO Strategist Jordan Koene joins host Benjamin Shapiro to discuss five key areas of SEO planning. In this next session they establish how important having a structured but flexible roadmap is in order

 GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Welcome to the SEO planning week on Voices of Search! This week Advisor to Searchmetrics and SEO Strategist Jordan Koene joins host Benjamin Shapiro to discuss five key areas of SEO planning. In the final instalment of the SEO Planning Series they talk about resources. Whether budget, people, tools

It is so great to see Peter The Greeter back at the Google offices, the GooglePlex, in Mountain View, California. He has greeted countless visitors at the Google offices over the years and now he is back. As you can see, he is wearing a mask this time but also, he is about 70lbs lighter

In 2017, Google did a ton of testing of deploying rounded corners for its mobile search results design. Well, the test is back. Saad AK shared a couple of screen shots on Twitter of Google testing rounded borders around the search results in the mobile search results. Here is a screenshot: Here are more from

A few days ago, Google made a change in the Google Search Console page experience report to direct developers to debug their AMP pages for page experience issues outside of Search Console. Google is linking them to the AMP Page Experience Guide. Google said “this new functionality will make it easier for you to act

Google is discontinuing the feature to post in your verified Google knowledge panels starting on July 20, 2021. This does not impact Google Posts within Google My Business but does impact those who used it on their knowledge panels. As an FYI, Google started experimenting with posts on knowledge panels for sports teams back in