“What you know you can’t explain, but you feel it. You’ve felt it your entire life, that there’s something wrong with the world

Google’s plan of “preventing comment spam” with the nofollow link attribute didn’t work for its own webmaster blog. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

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Quality answers in plain language land in Google’s answer box and “People Also Ask.” Here’s how you can improve your website’s chances as a featured snippet. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Google’s John Mueller clarified that content may be still moved to mobile-first indexing despite not passing the mobile usability test. The post Google: Mobile Usability is Not Related to Mobile-First Indexing by @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Kara from the Google My Business team confirmed Google is working on a fix for the delays in getting review data from the Google My Business API, specifically webhooks. Kara said “Our teams are working on the issue but they don’t have an estimate for when the issue will be resolved.”

I am not sure if this is a new snippet, but I don’t think I’ve seen it before where Google shows how many years ago the question was specifically asked in this format. Bhumika Kateliya shared on Twitter an example of this and I was able to replicate a similar one in Google’s search results

A lot of news came out yesterday evening around an old Google knowledge panel exploit that let’s you manipulate almost any query to show any knowledge panel. Yes, this is embarrassing for Google but even more so because it is something that was reported back in 2016.