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If you see your content not showing up in Google Search this morning, you are not alone – it is a confirmed Google bug. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
Google’s John Mueller said that special characters on your page “doesn’t affect Google” Search rankings. This is in regards to like checkmarks such as ‘” or other special characters.
This is somewhat both sad and funny and I thought I should share it here. Via Joe Youngblood, an SEO who has said he “learned a few tricks” was able to sign a contract for SEO work with a big publishing company.
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
In addition, Google is testing an edge to edge autocomplete interface and more full width designs. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article
Google’s John Mueller confirmed again that Google won’t likely penalize or give your site a manual action if you do not add a nofollow or rel sponsored attribute to your affiliate links.
There has been a lot of local SEOs talking about the big shake up in the local results over the past week. It might be related to a local search algorithm update (Google has not confirmed it yet) or might be some spam fighting efforts.
Good content is foundational for link building. At SMX Next, Michael Johnson shared how SEOs can create content people want to link to.