Google is deprecating the old Structured Data Testing Tool. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Does your company advertise? If so, I have bad news: Your audience doesn’t trust your ads.

WordPress bans links to commercial sites from official documentation. But allows links to Stack Overflow. Some say that’s unfair.

Google is yet again testing another user interface for the related searches. We saw magnifying glass icons, we saw too many related searches and much more. Now we are seeing these boxed in as a test

Want your website to stay competitive in 2020 and beyond? Here are three types of SEO reports you should use and how to build them. The post The 3 Types of SEO Reports You Should Be Building in 2020  via @Supermetrics appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Gary Illyes from Google posted on the Google blog that spam reports are not used for manual actions. That spam reports are used for improving Google’s spam detection algorithms. Was it ever used for manual actions?

Posted by cheryldraper Conference season is here! Of course, this year it looks a bit different. Instead of signing in at the front table and snagging seats next to some new pals, you’ll be setting up your computer as the main stage. For some, this is going to be a major learning curve.

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

Most spam reports submitted via Google search results do not lead to manual actions. Google uses the reports to improve it’s spam detection capabilities. The post Google: A Small Fraction of Spam Reports Result in Manual Actions via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Google’s Gary Illyes posted a pop quiz for SEOs the other day on Twitter. The responses of the poll showed that SEOs are split on the answer of how Google would handle a contradictory robots.txt file directive