Google’s John Mueller said when it comes to breadcrumbs, the links you see on pages that tell you where you clicked from, the placement and location of those breadcrumbs don’t really matter for SEO. John said “no, the placement doesn’t matter for SEO.

Gary Illyes from Google said on Reddit that for a page to be indexed by Google “the content still has to pass quality checks.” If that content does not pass the quality checks, Google may not index it even if you manually try to submit the page to Google for indexing.

It’s now possible for YouTube creators to change the name of their channel without changing the name on their Google account.

Starting around Friday, April 23rd or so, there seems to have been an unconfirmed Google Search ranking algorithm both on the web search results side and the local search results side.

Google’s John Mueller describes a technique called reconciliation which is used to recognize when different content across the web belongs to the same author. The post How Google Knows Which Content Belongs to the Same Author appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…

Google confirmed with me yesterday that while the Q&A On Google feature is really going away, the Google Question Hub is not going to be impacted by this.

YouTube’s algorithm has changed over the years to reward viewer satisfaction over total clicks and views. Here’s what that means for marketers

In part one, Shimon Sandler and I spoke outside of my house in the cold weather about growing your search marketing agency. We continued that talk outside about how he went out and jumped from being in-house to starting his own search marketing agency. We also spoke about strategies to keep your clients spending money