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Google released a video talking about search spam and what Google does to protect searches from “spam sites, phishing scams, and other bad actors” trying to get into Google search. One metric that stood out was that Google detected “25 billion spammy pages every day” in 2020. Here is the super short video: Here is […]

This week, on January 27th, there was an unconfirmed and somewhat smaller Google search ranking update. Google launched a new redesign for its mobile search results pages, it was not such a huge difference at all. Google is testing new fonts on desktop search. Google’s video carousels in search play thumbnail clips. Google said it

There may have been a smaller and unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm update that touched down around January 26th but mostly felt on January 27th. I was going to report on it yesterday but more important information came out, so I held this until today. Again, this seems like a smaller update but if you

Google has published a document explaining what developers need to know about the upcoming App Tracking Transparency (ATT) policy changes. The changes will require developers to ask for permission when they use certain information from other companies’ apps and websites for advertising purposes, even if they already have user consent, Google said. You can read

So you probably have heard the news that Australia wants Google and other platforms to pay to list search results to news outlets. I wrote a more detailed article on this at Search Engine Land. Well, now, Google has added a large noticeable banner to the top of the search results in Google Australia for

Here is a photo from December 2018 from the Google Indonesia office. It shows these chairs or seats that look like wooden drums of some sorts. They are covered in Google colored fabrics to make it easier to sit on. This was shared on Instagram. This post is part of our daily Search Photo of

We lost a special and talented SEO soul yesterday, Hamlet Batista. Hamlet Batista was not just insanely talented in his profession, in our industry, but he was also one of the most giving, caring and loving people that our industry ever knew. And now, with the deepest sorrow, he is with the angels in heaven.

Normally when you do a search for hotels in a specific location, Google will show you a hotel search box with pricing pins in a blue background color. Google is testing variations of the colors for those pins both in red and white background colors, and maybe more. Sergey Alakov spotted Google testing red pricing

Does Google rank pages as individual web pages or does Google rank websites as a whole? The answer is really both. Google evaluates your site’s quality overall and that can impact your site during broad core updates, in Google Discover, whether Rich Results are shown for your site, and whether individual pages of your site

Mark Williams-Cook posted a super interesting example of Google Search showing a different set of ranked results for the same query. The only difference was how the search was conducted. One search was done as a query, typing in the words into the search box. The second was selecting the entity in the search suggestions