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Martin Splitt from Google said on Twitter that the new name for the user agent for GoogleBot should now be 100% live.

Yesterday we covered a feature that shows “see the connection” between two entities and/or people in Google’s knowledge panel. Google has been doing this for the past few weeks according to Mordy Oberstein and he shared more examples of this in action.

Back in December, Google announced an update to the top stories section and some of those screen shots showed descriptions, not just an image and title and site name, in the snippet section of the top stories.

Google Chrome’s built-in ad blocker will now block “annoying” and “intrusive” ads that run before and during videos. The post Google Chrome Expands Ad Blocking Efforts to Ads Within Videos via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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

Google’s John Mueller said that if you can, it is best to use the rel=sponsored link attribute on your affiliate links. You can still use nofollow or combine them if you want, but it would make things clearer for Google if you uses rel=sponsored.

Discover 15 ways to boost your personal brand on LinkedIn. The post 15 Ways to Boost Your Personal Brand on LinkedIn via @KristiKellogg appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google’s John Mueller had to say on Twitter that “URL length is not a ranking fraction.” He was told that a CMS autogenerates URLs that are often longer than what is recommended for SEO. Now, what is recommended for SEO in terms of length?

Understand what Google calls the “need beneath” a search query to analyze search results and plan your content strategy. The post Search Results Analysis: The Latent Question via @martinibuster appeared first on Search Engine Journal .