Google said this is just a reporting change and the change you see in crawling is not reflective of any change in search results. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

We also spoke about how SEO behavior changed around content around both the Panda and Penguin releases. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Just a PSA, when Google rolled out the update for the coverage report last week, it also fixed the validate fix issue from December 16, 2020. This is when Google posted the “issue validation is temporarily disabled due to upcoming changes in the report.” The new coverage report changes are out, so this is now working again.

Discover the most critical industry changes on PPC click fraud and learn the tools to help combat this challenging threat. The post The Global PPC Click Fraud Report 2020-21 via @ppcprotect appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google’s John Mueller addresses a few technical aspects of mobile-first indexing that continue to confuse site owners. The post Google’s John Mueller Clears Confusion About Mobile-First Index via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal

John Mueller of Google was asked the following question, “if I dofollow backlinks due to paying bloggers to write highly relevant review articles or paying for high-quality PR news articles, are they paid links that go against Google’s guidelines?” John responded that the short answer is yes, it is against Google’s guidelines.

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

There is a difference between what you see at Schema.org and what Google publishes at its Google Search developer documents for structured data rich results. The short difference is that what Google publishes is what you can potentially see surface in the Google search results but what schema.org publishes you probably won’t.

There is a difference between what you see at Schema.org and what Google publishes at its Google Search developer documents for structured data rich results. The short difference is that what Google publishes is what you can potentially see surface in the Google search results but what schema.org publishes you probably won’t