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This may be obvious to most of you, but Google’s John Mueller was asked if profile links, links in forums or social profiles if those links are enough to get you to rank in Google Search. John said no and left it at that, which is probably the best way to answer it.

Google Ads has added a new consolidated or bundled page that puts all your automatically applied recommendations on one page. Google said there is “a new version of the “Manage” tab where you can explore recommendation bundles and learn more about each optimization.”

Google has added a new HTTPS report within Google Search Console that not only shows which pages are being served under HTTPS but also why the pages not being served under HTTPS are having issues.

Google has added a new HTTPS report within Google Search Console. This new report now shows you not just which pages are not served over HTTPS but also why they are not being served as HTTPS.

Google announced a lot of new features and availability around shopping and product experiences in Google Search yesterday. Google expanded eligibility for merchant listing experiences, added more structured data properties, and released new Google Search Console reporting.

John Mueller explains how Google treats two sites that share the same look and feel and whether they can still rank The post Will Google Penalize Sites That Look The Same? appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google’s helpful content update officially finished rolling out Sept. 9 . Now it’s important to reflect on the update, our initial assumptions and its impact on the SEO industry.

Changes to product rich results eligibility helps merchants, product review sites and product information aggregators become eligible for more rich results The post Google Expands Eligibility for Product Rich Results appeared first on Search Engine Journal .