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Google’s John Mueller was asked in this past Friday’s Google Search Central SEO office hours if Google has different levels of site quality demotions. John Mueller of Google basically said no, that it is “more fluid” than that. The question was asked at the 13:11 mark into the video: What are the levels of site […]

Google said it can recognize and understand if a site is reputable about a specific topic area. John said it does make sense for sites to really hone in on their subject matter expertise because what “you’re essentially doing is on the one hand for search engines you’re kind of building out your reputation of

Eli Feldblum is an individual I have known longer than any other person I know in the SEO industry. I was in high school for a year with him back mid 90s – yes, we are old. It is always fun to catch up with old friends years and years later, especially when you are

It looks like Google added a whole set of new manual actions to the list of manual actions. The new ones are for Google News and Google Discover guideline violations. A Google manual action is when a human at Google issues a sort of penalty (Google does not like to call it a penalty) against

Here is a photo I found on Instagram back in 2016 of an Android claw machine game. The Android bot can be lowered to grab you some Google pillows. The pillows are Chrome, YouTube and Google Maps pillows. This photo was taken in Roppongi Hills, in Tokyo, Japan back on December 2016. This post is

In July 2020, Google Ads announced portfolio bid strategies, an automated, goal-driven bid strategy that groups together multiple campaigns, ad groups, and keywords. Now, Google is saying this feature is available to all manager accounts. Portfolio bid strategies automatically set bids in Google Ads to help you reach your performance goals. They specifically include the

Apple Maps both on iOS devices and desktop seem to now be showing menus from some restaurants. The menus seem to mostly come from Yelp, a partner of Apple. Here is what it looks like on my iPhone: Thibault Adda shared a screen shot from his iPad but it does not show Yelp, it shows

Some of Google Image search results may show you a notice at the footer of the image results. The notice reads “Information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) is constantly evolving. The rest of the results might not be what you’re looking for. See more anyway.” Here is a screen shot (click to enlarge): Marie Haynes noticed

Google’s Aurora Morales in her latest video spoke about duplicate content from the view of not just organic search but also from publishers who want to monetize their websites. She started off saying that your site needs to add value, value more than what you can find elsewhere. Google may limit or disable your Google

This week in search, I posted my monthly recap of the Google Webmaster Report, I must say it is an excellent way to catch up on all things Google Search in a quick way. Google launched the “about this result” snippet feature that most searchers likely won’t use but some SEOs are concerned with because