Google’s John Mueller said again that there is no specific SEO benefit for hosting your images on your own domain name. You can host them on your domain name or host them on another domain name, it shouldn’t image how well that image ranks. But John does say you may want to host it on your domain name so you have more control if you switch CDNs in the future

Here are three data-driven actions that will help support your company toward search marketing success. The post 3 Tips for Taking Action from Your Website Data by @LWilson1980 appeared first on Search Engine Journal

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The other week we posted about a bug with Google Ad Grants advertisers not being able to accept the terms and conditions. This has been going on for weeks and finally Google posted a possible solution or workaround for the bug. The steps are as follows:

Google’s John Mueller offers advice on link penalty recovery. The post Google on True Recovery Time for Link Penalty by @martinibuster appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Always test your pages using Google’s own tools and third-party resources to view the rendered HTML to make sure all your content is showing up. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

A conversation with Moz’s Russ Jones about what’s changed. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Google has added a line to the business description guidelines within the Google My Business guidelines basically making it clear that they do not allow the description to contain irrelevant content.

Google is introducing a new way for retailers to promote products in image search with shoppable ads. The post Google Introduces Shoppable Ads on Google Images by @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…