Plus, Google lets searchers know when results aren’t reliable Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Applications will be open today and close July 2. The program will run August – October 2021.

It is heartbreaking to have to write that Russ Jones has passed away unexpectedly on Thursday. He leaves behind a wife and three daughters.

This week, Google launched a new location, a singular location, to create and build your video, display and audio ads. This is called the Ads Creative Studio and it brings together a number of Google tools previously found across products like YouTube, Display & Video 360 and Campaign Manager 360

Do you think Google thinks about how webmasters, SEOs, site owners, publishers would react when it confirms a Google Search algorithm update, prior to announcing it? Does Google think about the worry, fear or anxiety it might cause by confirming or pre-announcing an update

I know we covered this topic countless times but just another reminder, Google prefers to “neutralize” bad links and neutralize spam as opposed to penalize you for those bad links or spam. That means that Google will ignore it, like it isn’t there.

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

Google has published a new help document explaining how different HTTP status codes affect how a site appears in search results. The post How HTTP Status Codes Impact SEO appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google has posted a message at the top of the Google My Business Insights reporting screen that says “data may be delayed.” The unusual part is not that the data may be delayed, we see that a lot, the unusual part is that Google posted a notice about it.