Online tax-filing services can no longer hide free services from Google Search results
TurboTax and others are prohibited from noindexing their free e-file landing pages, per new IRS rules.
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John Mueller Of Google Helping Webmasters On New Years 2020
Just like on every Christmas, John Mueller from Google dials up to the internet and logs on to the support channels on New Years and helps out folks in the Google Webmaster support and social media channels. He has done it year after year on New Year…
Seer Interactive’s Spotify Wrapped 2019
What is Spotify Wrapped?
If you logged on to Instagram at any time in December, you already know.
But if not – Spotify Wrapped is a yearly release to all Spotify users that compiles all their data from the past year (or, in this case, decade) and packages it into cool tidbits like your favorite artist of the year/decade, your favorite genre, and how much music you’ve listened it.…
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Google’s New Year’s Day Doodle For 2020
It is a new year, 2020, in some places now and if you visit the Google home page in those locations you can see Google’s frog-themed New Year’s Day Doodle. The frog is also looking out at a city landscape, over the water, as the sunrises. It looks li…
Lists On Google Maps Search Carousel For Restaurants?
Google is testing a new search user interface treatment for map results called “Lists on Google Maps.” This shows you a carousel of results from Google Maps, Google My Business listings, that you can scroll through and learn more about.
A Cheesy Video On Google’s URL Inspection Tool
John Mueller and Martin Splitt from Google released a cheesy video, literally cheesy in many ways, around questions around the URL inspection tool. These are FAQs that you probably know the answers to already but the video is so funny to watch that you…
Google: Not Cloaking When Content In NoScript Missing Due To A Blocked Endpoint
Mike King asked John Mueller of Google an interesting question around issues that come up with the web rendering engine and blocked endpoints with JavaScript rendering issues. Mike asked if it would be considered cloaking if Google does not end us seei…
Google: XML Sitemaps Are Mixed Up & Used As An Energy Drink
Google’s John Mueller said on Reddit that Google uses XML Sitemaps like an energy drink. John said “All sitemap files of a site are imported into a common, big mixing cup, lightly shaken, and then given to Googlebot by URL in the form of an energy drin…
At enterprise companies, SEOs cannot ‘do’ most of the SEO (An article to forward to non-SEO teams in your company)
Why consistent SEO training is critical for all of the teams that touch enterprise websites.
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Google New Year’s Eve 2019 Frog Doodle
New Years Eve is tomorrow (December 31, 2019) here in New York but if you are in New Zealand, it is already tomorrow and Google.co.nz already has the New Year’s Eve Doodle. It has a frog sitting and bringing in the new years with fireworks over the wa…
Google Again: Linking Out To High Authority Sites Does Not Help With Your Rankings
Google’s John Mueller said again that linking out to high authority web sites does not help you rank better in Google. He said “no” when asked if it is true based on what this graphic says, which is “multiple SEO experiments and studies show that link…
Google Images Tests Paginated Results
Google may be testing allowing mobile searches using image search to jump from page to page of the search results instead of the infinite scroll. Bhumika Kateliya posted this screen shot on Twitter of Google Images results on mobile having a page 2 b…
Google Search Console Coverage Report Now Delayed 10 Days
There is currently a ten-day delay with the Google Search Console coverage report. It is not uncommon for these reports to experience delays but often the delay is about three-days. We are now showing data as late as December 20, 2019, which is ten-day…
Google: You Always Need Textual Content On-Page
Let’s say you have a web site that just serves audio or video or images or other forms of multimedia – will Google be able to understand it all? John Mueller of Google said on Reddit “You always need textual content on-page, regardless of what other k…
Vlog #33: Rob Timmermann On Doing SEO Wrong & Google Core Updates
Rob Timmermann, founder and CEO of Timmermann Group, was the next SEO I went to chat with in St. Louis. He started the company in 2003 as a web design agency before doing online marketing consulting…
The big list of Google My Business changes, upgrades and tests in 2019
The key GMB updates of 2019 with local experts’ perspective on what’s most significant.
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10 Tips for improved guest blogging in 2020
Top tips that’ll do wonders for your guest blogging in 2020. Brand your business, demonstrate thought leadership and build relationships via link building.
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Looking back at (almost) a decade of Yoast
It’s almost 2020 and a brand-new decade is right around the corner! A decade ago, Yoast didn’t even exist yet. A lot has changed in the past 10 years. In this blog post, I would like to look back at (almost) 10 years of Yoast. And, I’ll look at our plans for next year! 2020 […]
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Bing revives its cashback program with Rebates
Bing’s new cashback offering will compete for shoppers with the likes of Honey and Google Shopping.
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