Google confirms an update to its spam detection system, called the December 2022 link spam update, is rolling out and will finish within two weeks. The post Google December 2022 Link Spam Update Rolling Out Now appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Google December 2022 Link Spam Update Rolling Out Now via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Just when you thought the Google Search updates were done for the year, Google has rolled out a December 2022 link spam update. This update will take about two weeks to roll out and is a global update. What Google said.
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Google releases December 2022 link spam update
Google is rolling out a search status dashboard that will inform you, in real-time, whether there’s an issue with crawling, indexing, or serving search results. The post Is Google Down Right Now? Check The Search Status Dashboard appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Is Google Down Right Now? Check The Search Status Dashboard via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
You’ve got a lot of levers to pull in your paid search account that might improve performance. But the absolute best optimization you can make is one you won’t find in the Google Ads interface
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How to drive 10x more conversions with magnetic paid search offers
Google has launched a new visual elements of Google Search gallery that documents some of the more popular search features in Google Search. Now we no longer have to guess or make up names for some of the Google Search features.
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Google Gives Official Names Of Some Search Features With Visual Elements Gallery
I always wondered why Google had status dashboards for hundreds of other products across Gmail, Drive, Google Ads, etc., but not for Google Search – its most important product/service. But that all changed today when Google launched its Google Search Status Dashboard report.
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New Google Search Status Dashboard Tells Us When Crawling, Indexing Or Serving Goes Down
John Mueller of Google said in a post on Reddit that disallowing Googlebot to crawl your site would not immediately lead to the site being deindexed. He added that “it would take quite some time for the whole site to drop out,” and the home page may not be dropped at all.
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Google: Disallowing Crawling Is Not A Super Fast Way To Deindex A Site
Gary Illyes from Google said on LinkedIn that if your server returns a 500/503 HTTP status code for an extended period of time for your robots.txt file, then Google may remove your site completely from Google Search.
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500/503 HTTP Status Code On Robots.txt Can Remove Your Site From Google Search
Google’s John Mueller repeated it, the time spent on a page by your users is not a factor Google uses for ranking. Time spent on the page is not a Google ranking factor, he said, “It doesn’t,” meaning Google doesn’t care about time spent on the page for ranking purposes.
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Google Again: Time Spent On Page Is Not A Ranking Factor
I’ve been checking for the past week, multiple times per day, and just now, Google has launched the Chanukah/Hanukkah decorations for the 2022 season. Chanukah starts this Sunday night, so I was expecting it to come soon, and it is here with a family around a table playing dreidel.
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Google Hanukkah Decorations Are Live For 2022