Danny Sullivan, Google's Search Liaison, said that the search company will add the upcoming site reputation abuse policy to the spam reporting tool when the policy begins to be enforced. So sometime after May 5, 2024, the report spam form will gain a new option to report site reputation abuse.Sullivan said this on X, responding to a question if the form will gain this new option. Sullivan responded saying, "Yes, it should get updated to allow reporting of that spam type when that policy takes...
Forbes has blocked its coupons section of its web site at forbes.com/coupons using an x-robots-tag: noindex directive prior to Google enforcing the upcoming site reputation abuse policy. As a reminder, Google will enforce that new policy on May 5th both algorithmically and through manual actions.Laura Chiocciora notified me of this change on X saying, "It seems like Forbes put a noindex x-robots-tag on its Coupon folder a few days ago." I checked the HTTP header for the coupon directory and...
Google’s core update is still rolling out over 7 weeks later and yes we are seeing more fluctuations and chatter. Forbes blocked its coupon directory in preparation for the Google site reputation abuse policy. Google said splitting and merging sites takes longer than normal site migrations. Google won’t change 301 redirect signals for SEO. Google said they need very few links for rankings. Google said you can ignore link spam. Google said its link best practices document is still good. Google...
Google's new Search spam policy related to reputation abuse (or parasite SEO) will take effect in just a few days, after May 5.
Google continues its push to bring all of its services’ Reminders feature under one roof over at Google Tasks. This week, it’s Google Keep users that need to be made aware of what’s taking place. As announced, over the next year, Google Keep will have its Reminders automatically saved over to Tasks. This move allows … Continued Read the original post: Google Keep Reminders Will Also Get Saved to Google Tasks
Want to scare an SEO? Just tell them they need to manage a site migration. Want to make an SEO faint? Tell them they need to manage to split a site into two or more sites while merging content on those sites. John Mueller from Google said it takes Google longer to process site splits and merges than normal site migrations.John said this on X saying, "Splitting & merging tend to take much longer than a normal site migration." Why? Because he said "there's not much you can do other than to be...
There’s a lot of buzz in boxing circles about eight-division world champion Manny Pacquiao making a comeback in a serious fight, not an exhibition, and from what’s in the air, it appears that he’s not ruling out anything at the moment.
On Monday's show: We learn how an environmental disaster more than 40 years ago led to the creation of the EPA's Superfund program and how an activist involved in that fight mentored a Houston woman working to get local contaminated sites cleaned up.
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I am not sure how many times Google has said that you do not need to disavow spammy links, that you can ignore link spam attacks and that links pointing to pages that 404/410 are links that do not count - but John Mueller from Google said it again.In a thread on X, John Mueller from Google wrote, "if the links are going to URLs that 404 on your site, they're already dropped." "They do nothing," he added, "If there's no indexable destination URL, there's no link." John then added, "I'd generally...
Gary Illyes from Google said on stage at the SERP conference last week that Google has taken steps to combat what some of us call parasite SEO in the most recent Google algorithm update. He was quoted as saying, "We have already done stuff against Parasite SEO; the recent update is the proof."Nikola Minkov posted this on X saying, "More from Gary Illyes, We have already done stuff against Parasite #SEO; the recent update is the proof."Here is that post:More from @methode:- We have already...
Democrats are considering whether to help Speaker Mike Johnson as several House Republicans call for his removal as speaker. Ashley Etienne, former communicators director for Kamala Harris and Nancy Pelosi, and Brendan Buck, former aide to Speakers Ryan and Boehner, weigh in on how the House's leadership battle could end.