Google doesn’t want your AI-generated SEO spam content
Filed under 'not new, but a good reminder': AI-generated content is 'spam' and is against Google's Webmaster Guidelines.
Topic: John Mueller
Toxic links and disavows: A comprehensive SEO guide
Do you need to disavow low-quality, spammy links? Discover answers to frequently asked questions about disavowing links.
How to improve E-A-T for YMYL pages
Learn what type of content Google considers to be "Your Money or Your Life" and where to focus your SEO efforts to improve Expertise, Authoritativeness and Trustworthiness for those pages.
Google says Shopify sites are in a good crawling state after reports of stalled crawling
Google Search Console's crawl stats report showed Google stopped crawling many Shopify sites last week.
Google adds new robots tag indexifembedded
This new robots tag lets you define if you want your content indexed when it's embedded through iframes or other means.
URL changes are not so simple for Google Search
Making URL changes to your site can take several months for Google to process.
Google Search Console testing announcement bar
Google looks to be testing a new announcement section at the top of the Search Console interace.
How marketers can create linkable content to drive more site traffic
Good content is foundational for link building. At SMX Next, Michael Johnson shared how SEOs can create content people want to link to.
Google drops its mobile-first indexing deadline, leaves it open-ended
Google said because of some difficulties that some sites may have moving to mobile-first indexing, it has decided to not move those sites over yet..
SEO community feels blindsided by November core update as Google defends timing
SEOs have a few opinions on the timing of this update.
How Google’s continuous scroll can affect impressions and CTR
Reporting remains the same in Search Console, but eliminating the line between pages may result in new user behaviors, which can create winners and losers.
Google on Penguin algorithm; aims to ignore spammy links but can lead to distrusting your site
Maybe it is best to avoid link building and build a site that naturally gains links?
What do new pans have to do with attribution?; Friday’s daily brief
Plus, new reporting in Google Ads and new Yelp attributes
Fancy like????… why brands should pay attention to TikTok
Plus, Microsoft’s new credit card ads
Google Search Console performance reports are now back to normal
We are now seeing reporting as early as four hours ago!
Google Search Console lost performance report data for August 23rd and 24th
The data won't be replaced or backfilled, as we hoped for.
Google says title changes don’t impact rankings
"This just changes the displayed titles, it doesn't change ranking or takes [sic] anything different into account," he elaborated.
Top stories images aren’t showing in Google Search
The company has confirmed that it’s a bug and is working to resolve it.
It’s not a bug; it’s a feature! The Google search term report glitch actually may have been a test; Monday’s daily brief
Plus, Facebook bans researchers looking into political ads
Do you follow the Google guidelines?; Wednesday’s daily brief
Also, Target impression share in Microsoft Advertising grows.
Google’s universal search results bid for placement and may be influenced by clicks
In the Search Off The Record podcast, Gary Illyes of Google described how Google ranks news, images, videos and other indexes within the main search results.
The Google link spam update is rolling out; Wednesday’s daily brief
And, the review stars are back in Google Search results.
Google fixing two search bugs; review snippets and soft 404 detection
These bugs lead to some pages being removed from the Google search results or the stars being removed from the Google search results.
Change is what search marketers expect; Wednesday’s daily brief
Plus, AMP labels are gone and Google Ads releases three-strikes policy.
There isn’t always a quick answer in SEO and that is okay; Wednesday’s daily brief
Search Console changed how you debug some AMP URLs.
The July core update is “effectively complete”; Tuesday’s daily brief
And, how search professionals can help fight against misinformation in their communities.
Google now does soft 404 detection by device type
This can lead to Search Console showing you everything is fine but in reality, some of your desktop pages may not be indexed.
Are all the Google algorithm updates too much to handle?; Wednesday’s daily brief
Also, Google talks about search rankings and spam prevention.
Google on how it ranks search results and prevents obvious spam
Don't focus on one or two specific signals, make your site is better overall says Google.
So Google gave you another year to prepare for the Cookiegeddon. Now what?; Thursday’s daily brief
And, 51% of local marketers say their business will hire more SEO staff this year.
It can take hours to weeks for new content to be indexed, says Google
Quality is one of the more important aspects of getting Google to index and rank your pages quickly.
Google rankings, quality and relevancy; Wednesday’s daily brief
Also, non-AMP content now in top stories carousel.
May 22 Google update was big, despite Google’s being mum about it; Wednesday’s daily brief
Core web vitals ranking tidbits and less data in Search Console
Google I/O announcements, what you need to know; Friday’s daily brief
Plus new Google Ads smart bidding features.
Google video structured data with Clip markup and Seek markup
Here are some new methods to make your videos stand out in Google Search.
Google I/O is next week; expect a lot of new search goodies; Friday’s daily brief
Also an unconfirmed, Google algorithm update, local search features and video SEO.
Some new local search changes you should be aware of; Wednesday’s daily brief
Also, Google updated its event structured data report in Search Console.
Google search rankings algorithm check-in; Friday’s daily brief
Local Service Ads Google bug, speeding up images and the value of our old internet companies.
SEOs, stop wasting time and focus on what really matters; Friday’s daily brief
Also, Google released its webspam report for 2020 and the new Google Ads API
Let’s get things straight with the Google page experience update; Friday’s daily brief
Also more on the Google product reviews update rolling, local car inventory displaying and soft 404s seem resolved.