Google Broad Core Updates And Why Some Health Sites Affected
Why health sites seem to be sensitive to Google broad core updates and why this matters to all websites that lost traffic in Google updates.
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I was a Head Judge of the U.S. Search Awards in 2022, 2021 & 2020 .
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Google Cancels Support for Robots.txt Noindex
Google announced they will no longer support robots.txt noindex directive
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John Mueller was asked what a good link is and how to get them without being spammy.
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Link building has two factors holding it back. This is how to power up your link building.
Quality Raters Guidelines and Google Ranking Signals
The downside of using the Quality Raters Guidelines to guess what ranking signals Google uses.
Google Hangouts on Air With YouTube Live Discontinued
Google’s support page for Hangouts On Air was updated to note it’s being discontinued. No formal announcement yet.
Is Google June Update Using Wikipedia to Judge Sites?
Mercola claims Google June Broad Core Update uses Wikipedia to judge and rank websites. Is there proof?
WordPress Plugin SEO by RankMath Security Update
SEO by RankMath released security updates to patch two vulnerabilities and improve security.
New Chrome Security Extension Flags Small Sites as Suspicious
Official Chrome security extension is biased against small websites. Flags sites if they’re not a big brand.
Facebook Changes Reach of Comments in News Feed
Facebook updated its algorithm to limit which kinds of comments reached the most people and reward others with these quality signals.
Google’s John Mueller Discusses June 2019 Update Recovery
Google’s John Mueller answered the question of what can be done when broad core algorithm update affects traffic.
Google’s John Mueller Answers Whether Author Bio is Necessary
Google’s John Mueller offered an insightful answer as to whether the author biography page is necessary.
Google Announces Free Webmaster Conferences
Google announced a series of free webmaster conferences to be held at different locations around the world.
June 2019 Broad Core Algo Update: It’s More than E-A-T
Two high authority sites fall to Google’s June Core Algorithm Update. Offers clues to update related ranking losses.
Google Announces Site Diversity Change to Search Results
Google announced a change to how Google shows websites in the search results. It’s not a change to how Google ranks websites.
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Firefox announced enhanced privacy settings by default, lobs criticism at Chrome and Facebook.
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A vulnerability was discovered and patched at four popular web hosts. Customers are urged to scan for malware.
Shopify Outage Sunday June 2, 2019
Google Cloud outage may have caused Shopify shopping sites to go down.
Google Announces June 2019 Broad Core Algorithm Update
Google officially announced a broad core algorithm update for June 2019.
Google’s John Mueller on Social Bookmarking for Links
Google’s John Mueller answers if Social Bookmark pages have a ranking effect.
Google’s John Mueller Answers Question About Negative SEO Attack
A webmaster asked John Mueller if he should disavow negative links by a competitor or wait for a manual penalty.
Negative SEO and Lost Rankings? Read This
Under attack by Negative SEO and disavowing links hasn’t worked? This may help.
Major Update to Moz Local in June 2019
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NEW: Chrome DevTools Can Override Geographic Location
Chrome DevTools can now override geolocation data in order to help developers test how a website responds in a different geographic area.
Google’s John Mueller is Asked About Top 3 SEO Factors
Google’s John Mueller answers question about top 3 SEO factors.
April 2019 Google Outages Due to Human Error
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Google Indexing Issue May 23 – 26, 2019 – RESOLVED
Google announced a new index outage. Remained unresolved as of Friday May 24, 2019. Rumors say that outages are due to human error.
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The type of links that matter may have changed. Kicking up links in 2019.
Google Index Issues Resolved – What Happened?
Google announced that its indexing issues have been fixed. Is something going on at Google?
Site Can’t Rank on Google: Is It a Legacy Domain Penalty?
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