Archive for March, 2019

Google: There Is No Google Organic Traffic Budget

2019/03/23

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that Google doesn’t have an organic traffic budget that will stop sending a site traffic once it reaches a certain number. He said “we try to show pages in search when our algorithms think they’re relevant, not based on counters.”

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Google’s Latest Advice On Pagination & Page Series Post rel=next and rel=prev

2019/03/23

As you know, Google told us they just realized that rel=next and rel=prev is no longer supported for the past year or so.

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Bing Uses rel=next and rel=prev For Discovery But Not Merging Pages

2019/03/23

With all the controversy around Google just noticing they haven’t supported the rel=next/prev and now trying to dig themselves out of a hole – folks are curious how Bing supports it. Frédéric Dubut from Bing said on Twitter that Bing uses them for discovery and understanding site structure but they do not use it to merge pages into a set

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 22, 2019

2019/03/22

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…

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Chris Brogan’s Guide to Building a Fast Blogging Framework

2019/03/22

Blogging is a part of our origin story here at TopRank Marketing. In fact, we just celebrated the TopRank Marketing Blog’s 15 th birthday this past December. But despite our blogging longevity, we’re always refining and optimizing, too

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Google Web Spam Report: Google Sent 33% Less Manual Actions Last Year

2019/03/22

Google has released their annual web spam report and I just love comparing the previous year report to this one. Here are some of the highlights from the report, including Google sent 4 million manual actions in 2018, where sent 6 million in 2017.

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Search Buzz Video Recap: More On Google March 2019 Core Update, Google Drops Rel Next & Prev & Neural Matching vs RankBrain

2019/03/22

What a fun week in the SEO space – we had Google do some explaining or myth busting around the March 2019 core algorithm update, no – it wasn’t a reversal. Google just noticed that they have not supported the rel=next/prev markup for years now…

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SEOs frustrated by Google’s belated pagination announcement

2019/03/22

Apparently, people don’t like being kept in the dark. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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New personalized, Shopping Actions-enabled Google Shopping debuts in France

2019/03/22

Personalized recommendations and universal checkout are front and center in the update. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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