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A couple of weeks ago, the SEO industry couldn’t stop talking about stop words. SEMrush posted a list of “SEO stop words” and the community began buzzing. John Mueller of Google even responding saying on Twitter “I wouldn’t worry about stop words at all; write naturally.” In computing, stop words are words which are filtered […]

Lily Ray posted a Twitter poll asking the SEO industry if they think the core web vitals, or I guess the upcoming Google Page Experience Update, will have an “discernable impact” on your Google organic rankings. As expected, the results are somewhat all over the place, but weighted a bit more on the side of

Google has added a new AMP error to the Search Console AMP enhancements report for disallowed !important CSS qualifier. This was added back on January 19, 2021 and as a result, you may see an increase in the number of AMP errors reported after that date. Google wrote “Search Console has added a check for

Google is rolling out to some businesses the ability to respond to Google My Business messaging through your desktop browser. Previously you were only able to manage it from your mobile phone and before that, through SMS. This was not yet announced but I see it on my own Google My Business account, and so

With the launch of passage ranking this past week, there has been a lot of confusion about if you can “see” these in the Google search results. The answer is no, you cannot see them in the search results as we covered last week, December 2020 and in October 2020. Back in October, Danny Sullivan

For the past few months or so, Google seems to have been auto populating the services section of your Google My Business listing. It is believed that Google is pulling the services based on the content of your web site. Ryan Mews spotted this back in October and now Andy Simpson just spotted this last

In part one, Eli Feldblum and I spoke about the good old days. He left a company he co-founded and is now at Search Interactions he does a lot of proactive search reputation management for up and coming names and brands. So now he is all corporate and professional, and he “matured” and our industry

Google may be testing showing the “find results on” other search providers in the US. This is a feature Google launched in the European Union after the anti-competitive legislation and issues they had their. But now, I am seeing reports of this in the US, maybe it is a bug, but Austin Holdsworth based in

Here is a sunflower at the GooglePlex, the main Google offices located in Mountain View, California. It was posted on Instagram the other day. It looks pretty happy, don’t you think? This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day column, where we find fun and interesting photos related to the search

Google’s John Mueller said Google does not have manual action penalties for building sites that are missing logos, or missing the menu links at the top or even the footers at the bottom. John said on Twitter “I’m not aware of any manual actions / penalties that we’d apply for lack of those items. Sometimes