Yesterday we posted two Google Doodles for the happy holidays season but something changed.

Google Ads announced on Twitter and Facebook that it is ending its social media support on January 1, 2020. Google wrote “Direct messages and comments will not be actioned starting January 1, 2020.”

Google’s John Mueller posted a single #AskGoogleWebmasters video answering seven SEO questions. All the questions are pretty basic and you probably heard John answer them before

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…

Google upgraded the publisher center over the past couple weeks but not everything in the new publisher center seems to be working properly. A Google Publisher Center help thread says that when you try to add a new section using the web crawl option, it simply doesn’t work.

These tips can help SEO agencies write better proposals that prove value and eliminate client concerns.

Know the difference between error 404s and soft 404s and learn how to fix the SEO issues behind them.

Aleyda Solis interviewed not one, but five Google Webmaster Trends Analysts at the same time while at the Google Webmaster Conference in Zurich. It was pretty fun and interesting to see how they interact with each other while answering questions

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