Archive for January, 2021

Entity vs. Query Rank In Google Search

2021/01/28

Mark Williams-Cook posted a super interesting example of Google Search showing a different set of ranked results for the same query. The only difference was how the search was conducted

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DuckDuckGo App Updated With More Privacy Protections via @MattGSouthern

2021/01/28

DuckDuckGo is updating its mobile apps and desktop extensions to meet the standards of a new effort called Global Privacy Control (GPC). The post DuckDuckGo App Updated With More Privacy Protections via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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Google Will Stop Showing Teaser Web Stories In Search & Discover

2021/01/28

Google posted on the Google blog that it will try to no longer show “teaser” based web stories in Google Search and Google Discover. Paul Bakaus from Google wrote “A critical ranking signal at Google is the quality of your content

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Google Maps Search Trends For January 2021 via @MattGSouthern

2021/01/28

Google is sharing insights about trending searches on Google Maps, a rare set of search data which may assist local marketers. The post Google Maps Search Trends For January 2021 via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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Google To Stop Supporting Data-Vocabulary.org In Search This Weekend

2021/01/28

Google on Sunday, January 31, 2021, will stop supporting markup in the format from data-vocabulary.org. Google gave us over a years notice of this change, so this change should not come as a surprise to anyone here.

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Clubhouse: Everything You Need to Know About Getting Started via @brie_e_anderson

2021/01/28

Clubhouse is currently the fastest growing social media platform in the market.

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Google Ranks Pages But Overall Site Greatly Influences The Ranking Pages

2021/01/28

There is an interesting debate going on in the SEO industry over the past couple of days on if Google ranks pages as individual web pages or if Google ranks websites as a whole.

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SEO community mourns Hamlet Batista, advocate for automation in SEO and beloved friend

2021/01/28

RankSense’s Maura Loew shares what it was like to work with Hamlet as we reflect on his career and contributions to the community. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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Google Ads Tests "Site" Label In Search Ads

2021/01/28

Here is a small and subtle test that probably will irritate some advertiers. Google Ads is testing placing a label named “Site” between the Ad label and the URL of the search ad in the mobile results. Patrick Garde shared a screen shot of this with me on Twitter.

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Google Can Penalize A Network Of Sites For The Same Manual Action

2021/01/28

Let’s say you run a legit network of sites under one umbrella company. Those sites have different content but the content is in the same framework and structure because I assume they use the same content management system and overall site structure

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