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There was an interesting thread on Twitter about DA, Moz’s domain authority metrics. In short, a blogger named Chloë wanted advice on getting her blog’s “domain authority up.” John Mueller of Google made a joke that DA is not important and Google doesn’t use it but she came back and wrote “it is the most

Google’s Paul Bakaus, he is very involved in web stories these days, said on Twitter that at Google “we don’t generally ‘suspend’ sites, and when you fix issues, you are always eligible to reappear.” Truth is, and I posted this reminder before, Google Discover is impacted by core updates and requires a higher level of

Google has a new method to debug and ultimately report indexing issues with Google Search. Google opened up a new form where currently US based site owners can report issues directly to Google around Google Search indexing. Here is how it works. You can access the form to report an indexing issue over here or

Google has released version 7.0 of the Google Ads API. This is a jump from version 6.1.0 which was released on April 10, 2021. To use the v7 features, you will need to upgrade your client libraries and client code, Google said. Google said these are the highlights of version 7.0 of the Google Ads

Google announced a few new features in Google Search around travel features specifically as “many people are eager to start planning vacations again,” Google said. Google is getting ready for a post pandemic world with these updates that include new travel COVID advisories, new ways to explore destinations and a road trip planner. Google has

Here is an old photo I found on Instagram of the Google logo, its letters used for signage, on the ground, fallen and looking helpless. Okay, well, maybe they were installing a new sign at the GooglePlex back in January 2018? In any event, the person who posted this wrote “Go home Google, you’re drunk.”

Google has added a bunch of new supporting details to the robots.txt specification document. Jamie Indigo noticed these changes and explained what was added include “explicit details on the files for IDNs, IP-addresses, and port numbered hostnames.” It seems these were added on April 7th according to the document. Jamie posted the details on Twitter

Google has made design updates to the Google News Publisher Center. I don’t know if new functionality was added, it does not appear so, but maybe I am missing something. I’ll be honest, I do not use the publisher center that often, so I’m really not sure. Google last updated the Publisher Center back in

There is an interesting tidbit you can learn about Google’s web rendering service (WRS) in the latest JavaScript SEO hangout with Martin Splitt of Google where Martin said he is “spilling the beans a little bit” by sharing that there is a layer on top of WRS that handles “prioritization, error retry, quality of service

Both Microsoft (Bing) and Alphabet (Google) announced earnings last night and both had pretty big uplifts with their search advertising revenues and earnings. Microsoft was up 17% for its search advertising revenue category and Google was up 32% for its search advertising revenue category, year-over-year. The Microsoft earnings release said “search advertising revenue excluding traffic