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Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day and to celebrate the day, Google and other search engines like Bing, have special memorials on their home pages. Google has this special Doodle designed by Pittsburgh-based guest artist Noa Denmon and Bing has the ‘I Have a Dream’ inscription at the location of Dr. Martin Luther King […]

Here is a photo that was recently posted on Instagram, I am not sure when the photo was taken, of a tin trailer at the Google offices in Mountain View, California. There is nothing like an old tin can like this parked outside your office building. This post is part of our daily Search Photo

Just a PSA, when Google rolled out the update for the coverage report last week, it also fixed the validate fix issue from December 16, 2020. This is when Google posted the “issue validation is temporarily disabled due to upcoming changes in the report.” The new coverage report changes are out, so this “validate fix”

John Mueller of Google was asked the following question, “if I dofollow backlinks due to paying bloggers to write highly relevant review articles or paying for high-quality PR news articles, are they paid links that go against Google’s guidelines?” John responded that the short answer is yes, it is against Google’s guidelines. This was asked

There is a difference between what you see at Schema.org and what Google publishes at its Google Search developer documents for structured data rich results. The short difference is that what Google publishes is what you can potentially see surface in the Google search results but what schema.org publishes you probably won’t. In short, if

In part one, Phillip Thune, the CEO of Textbroker, and I spoke about FindWhat Days In 2000 To Running Textbroker in 2020. Here is part two. How To Prepare To Write: In part two of my interview with Phillip Thune, we talk about tips on how to prepare to write content. It starts with an

Google seems to be testing a new feature in its search results. A way to expand a specific news section in the main web results to show a carousel of news stories related to that section. Nicholas McDonough spotted this and shared it on Twitter. You can click on the diagonal arrows to trigger the

This is a cool video simulation (I don’t think it is real) of a video illustrating how Google prints the G logo on boxes or items. The video was originally from @scienceandfacts101 and I embedded it below from Instagram. This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day column, where we find

Two months ago Google launched the new disavow link tool in the new Google Search Console. Now, Google is sunsetting the old tool in just a few days from now. On January 19, 2021, Google said it will be removing access to the old version of this tool. Here is a link to the old

Looks like the folks at Google are doing an email marketing push to Search Console properties that have not yet verified the property through the domain property method. A domain-level property includes all subdomains (m, www, and so on) and multiple protocols (http, https, ftp) for a single domain name. Google is sending out different