For years Google has been communicating and we’ve been reporting that Google does not support using the noindex direction within your robots.txt file. Well, people still use it and now Gary Illyes from Google is on the case – he may end up making sure it completely doesn’t work.

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…

A new version of the official AMP plugin for WordPress supports the creation of AMP Stories. The post Official AMP Plugin for WordPress Now Supports AMP Stories by @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Google’s John Mueller hinted on Twitter that the URL parameter tool that was added to Google Search Console in 2009 may not be 100% ported to the new Google Search Console. He said Google may make the tool evolve versus make it a 1 to 1 switch over

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that Google does not manually hand rank any web page. He added the web is too big for that and if they tried, it would be impossible.

Smart speaker ownership jumped from 23 percent to 45 percent of respondents since last year’s survey from Microsoft. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Google My Business is launching a new feature which will help business owners showcase positive reviews. The post Google My Business Suggests Positive Reviews to Share as Posts by @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal

This week, we covered the ongoing Google bugs, this time with Google News indexing, Search Console issues, and other issues with Google. Google also is unaware of a…

Learn how to get more out of Search Console data by using it in combination with Google Data Studio. The post How to Take Search Console to the Next Level with Google Data Studio by @sam_marsden appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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