Posted by Cyrus-Shepard Google shook up the SEO world by announcing big changes to how publishers should mark nofollow links. The changes — while beneficial to help Google understand the web — nonetheless caused confusion and raised a number of questions.
Google will use rel=nofollow, sponsored, and ugc as hints about which links to consider or exclude for ranking. The post Google Makes Big Change to Nofollow, Introduces 2 New Link Attributes via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
Google has released a new WordPress plugin that’s designed for Chrome’s new native lazy-loading feature. The post Google Launches a Native Lazy-loading Plugin for WordPress via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
Recently, I guess the past couple of weeks or so, the Google Discover feed started showing restaurants you might be interested in. This is obviously important if you help local restaurants with their Google My Business listings.
SMX London attendees asked SEO expert Fili Wiese a wide-ranging number of questions about penalties, indexing, crawling and more.
Research on the expectations of consumers searching for brand information finds only half believe information in search results is accurate. The post Only 50% of Consumers Believe Search Results Provide Accurate Information About Brands via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
Google’s Danny Sullivan explained that its systems rely on topic relevance and authority to rank content. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article
Danny Sullivan from Google said on Twitter “Machines can’t tell the “accuracy” of content. Our systems rely instead on signals we find align with relevancy of topic and authority.” So Google cannot determine the accuracy of content, I guess
Google is also adding two new link attributes, one for sponsored links and one for user generated content links. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article
Join us in NYC November 13-14 for expert-led sessions and keynotes on the SEO and SEM topics you need to know. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.