These 10 types of bad links can get you penalized – algorithmically and through a manual action. The post 10 Bad Links That Can Get You Penalized by Google by @BrianHarnish appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

In an effort to fight spammers, Twitter is reducing the number of accounts users can follow each day. The post Twitter Fights Spammers by Limiting the Number of Accounts Users Can Follow Per Day by @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Come to SMX Advanced June 3-5 in Seattle for expert-led search marketing sessions. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

When I was in high school, we had a science class project in which we were grouped into teams, and tasked with building a catapult. Whichever contraption could launch a tennis ball the farthest would win the contest.

On Friday we reported on an issue where SEOs began noticing that Google was removing tons of pages from their index. It seemed to have started on Thursday but Google did not confirm the issue until Saturday morning

The test demonstrated Googlebot ignores rel=next and rel=prev tags; but it is worth taking a closer look at pages containing infinite scroll in future. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

I was checking stuff in Google Search Console and I see a filter in the search appearance filter within the performance report for Android apps. It seems it is showing data from March 29th

The automated tracking tools that look for Google search algorithm updates and large ranking changes are going wild over the weekend. I personally think it may be a false alarm.

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…