Google Hit Self-Promotional Listicles In Recent Unconfirmed Updates?
Google may have hit those self-promotional and self-serving listicle articles in one of the more recent unconfirmed Google search ranking updates.
Google may have hit those self-promotional and self-serving listicle articles in one of the more recent unconfirmed Google search ranking updates.
Google’s John Mueller responded to a question on the pros and cons of serving raw markdown pages to LLM crawlers and bots. John didn’t say much but he did list a number of concerns and things you should be on top of, if you do go down that avenue.
Mike Ryan posted data on the percentage of invalid clicks on the Google Ad Network, broken down by fraudulent clicks or likely accidental clicks. It shows the Google Display Network has the most invalid clicks, but search partners have the most fraudulent invalid clicks.
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