There will be no more referral fees from partners in flight search, as Google seeks to emphasize price and convenience in rankings. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

With Google saying yesterday that they are deprecating support for data-vocabulary markup because of the “popularity of schema.org” – some would assume microformats is next. But John Mueller from Google said microformats are still supported and there are no plans to deprecate that now.

John Mueller of Google said again, .gov TLDs, top level domain names, do not get a ranking boost or preference in Google search.

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

Google’s Danny Sullivan confirms web pages in a featured snippet position will no longer be repeated in regular organic listings. The post Google: Web Pages in Featured Snippets Not Repeated in Organic Listings via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google’s John Mueller clarifies that one violation of the webmaster guidelines will not get a site banned from search results. The post Google’s John Mueller: One Violation Will Not Result in a Manual Action via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google’s John Mueller said on Reddit “A site is not going to outrank your site just because of hidden text.” He also added “Inversely, just having hidden text on a page won’t get the site banned from Google.”

Google’s John Mueller advises site owners to aim for less than 5 hops in a 301 redirect chain. The post Google’s John Mueller Recommends Less Than 5 Hops Per Redirect Chain via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

An experiment to see if Google indexes top level domains differently yields surprising results. The post Is Google Biased Toward Some Top Level Domains

Instead, they’ll appear at the top of the second results page. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.