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Google has signalled, in the strongest possible manner, that it will be pulling out of China unless something is done to address censorship of searches. It has also accused China of launching a "highly sophisticated and targeted attack" on the Google corporate infrastructure, along with another twenty large companies from …
A new search engine officially launches today, the same day as the World Climate Summit in Copenhagen commences. According to [URL="http://www.ecosia.org"]Ecosia[/URL] you can help battle climate change by switching away from Google and here's how. Not only will the new guy on the search block give 80% of the advertising …
If you had to choose only one due to a limited budget, where would you invest first? Would you focus on creating higher quality content or building stronger backlinks?
I know how I feel about this as a publisher. However, as a *searcher*, do you like the Google AI overviews at the top of the search results? Or would you prefer things went back to the old school way they were years ago where it was just 10 search …
I run an education-based EdTech platform, and while our website traffic has been steadily increasing, we’re struggling to convert visitors into paying customers. Despite good traffic numbers, our organic sales and revenue remain very low. What common SEO mistakes could be causing this gap between traffic and conversions, and how …
What is some totally **incorrect** SEO advice you've heard of? Anything bizarre? Heads up, people: There is NO SUCH THING as `rel="follow"` or `rel="do-follow"`!! There is `rel="nofollow"` and `rel="ugc"` and `rel="sponsored"` and everything else is followed by default. Please stop classifying links as do-follow.
How did everyone fare? We came out slightly ahead.
Does it ever make sense to disavow links if you think you've been affected by Google Penguin-type stuff in a core algorithm update, but don't have, and never had, any manual penalties?
Hey everyone! Just wanted to share a quick thought on SEO and search engine strategies. Recently, I’ve worked on my own products and discovered something really exciting that I’d love to share. If you're running a website or blog, SEO isn’t something to ignore. It’s all about helping people find …
Perhaps I'm having a bit of a brain fog moment, but I can't wrap my mind around the difference between Added and New, Removed and Missing when comparing current vs prevous Screaming Frog crawls. Anyone use that software who can explain it to me better than ChatGPT was unsuccessfully able …
With Google’s BERT algorithm focusing on understanding natural language and search intent, how should SEO strategies evolve to adapt? Are traditional keyword-based techniques still effective, or should we prioritize content quality and user intent more? Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!
Back in the days **Google's Disavow Tool** could be useful to **disavow spammy backlinks**, which competitors created to hurt the rankings of a website. Negative SEO and Spamlink-attacks were (and are) real and can cause serious damages to businesses relying on Google's Organic Search as a Traffic Source. Of course, …
We use a lot of AJAX that loads JSON files that return an application/json mime type. In some instances, these JSON files are used to assemble elements on the page, so we don't want to hide them from Google because we want Google to see the page fully rendered. My …
Thanks everybody for the discussion So here's the thing. I was invited on an interview for a company to do there SEO and they gave me access to their SemRush and said that find us the keyword on which we have not created a blog post before and neither our …
Hello I have a website and i don't know if it has analytics connected to it. I have a plugin Site kit that says that my website is connected but when I try to connect to Bing webmaster tools as well, Bing says there are no websites linked to this …
I've been actively monitoring the performance of my blog pages, and I noticed that some of them have not been consistently ranking in the top 3, I aim to achieve a position within the top 3. I did every possible way of SEO to improve their rankings. I would appreciate …
I have a new website and have posted dozens of pages but only a few are showing in Google. What is a good way to make sure all the pages are in Google?
Whether blog commenting and Signatures in Forums with links are treated as spam by google. Your answer would help in getting my doubts clarified. Thanks in Advance
Hi everyone, I have a website where i post contents like music and movies for downloads but my site is not ranking at all and my traffic is as little as nothing. I am not a SEO expert but i did my site SEO myself with Yoast and followed a …
hello to All my friends.. i am facing issue related to GSC. the errors are excluded by noindex tag Page With Redirect, Soft 404, Blocked by Robotstxt, Redirect Error, can anybody tell me or guide me to resolve the issue? how i can resolve these errors?
> [I f***ing hate Google anymore. 5 years ago you would have searched that and found a definite answer and guide on how to find your password. I'm gonna guess you got a bunch of poorly written articles from strange websites that weren't actually helpful?](https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/115seb7/comment/j9338ut/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) I'm not the only one …
SEO Strategies are important for organic traffic for your website please give some tips for SEO Strategies.
Is guest posting still matter or effective in 2022 for ranking of keywords?
Has anyone ever come across any authoritative statement from Google on their official position of whether RSS feeds should be noindexed or not?
The Coverage section of Google Search Console shows 206K valid URLs, of which 174K are submitted and indexed, nearly all of which are Q&A pages. The remaining 32K are indexed, but not submitted in sitemap. However, the Core Web Vitals section only shows data on 28K URLs. In the Enhancements …
If you want more customized search results on google then it's always good to use filters while going for a particular research. For that you can try given below search terms. 1. Use of quoted searches: If you are looking for specific results of particular term then apply "" in …
According to [this page](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/experience/signed-exchange), Google requires "as a rule of thumb" that the SXG expiration date is less than 1 day in the future if the content is JS, or otherwise 7 days in the future. My external Javascript files are immutable. Why should they have a 1 day cache …
If I look at a page and see that it's ranking for several hundred keywords, if I just target the same main keyword, will my page also rank for the same several hundred keywords, or is there more to it than that?
Is there a tool to measure google Ads investment by domain?
Starting September 1st, about 25% of crawl requests started returning 304 Not Modified instead of 200 OK. Prior to that, there were just a small handful of such requests per day. I did not make any code changes that would introduce returning this header. Once I noticed, however, I tried …
My website site ranking was in the top ten. Suddenly Google has been Ignoring our Meta Description and Now Google is pulling meta description from my about us page content. After my website Ranking Dropped Dramatically . Can anyone help me with this problem. my website name is bismatrimony.com
I am trying to remove an entire folder of thin content from Google to help me recover from a Panda/EAT-related penalty. I want to keep the content on the site for the benefit of users, but not waste crawl budget or have Google think that we have so many pages …
How to sale products with search engine optimization ?
I wanna boost my new born website and i have no idea that which SEO strategy is useful to get well rank on GOOGLE and Bing. Kindly share your experiences thanks.
AMP pages are clogging the Valid Pages coverage report, grouped as Indexed, Not Submitted In Sitemap. My AMP pages are linking to the AMP version of the URLs the desktop versions link to. Desktop links to desktop. AMP links to AMP. What this means is that sometimes the AMP version …
Is there any news yet as to what the December 2020 core update focused on? What types of sites were the biggest winners vs biggest losers?
The new Crawl Stats in Google Search Console shows a breakdown of how much googlebot recrawls existing content for refreshing its index, and how much is discovery of new content. Has anyone been working on increasing the rate of new content and seeing that correlate to a linear increase in …
I have tried so many article sites but it's all are just a news sites. I can't able to post my articles there. So i need to know the list of article submisssion sites
This is a two part question. Firstly, what are some methods to build backlinks in late 2020 that are __not__ through guest blogging / blog outreach? Secondly, what are some methods to encourage users to share your content on social platforms?
Hello all , Our website not ranking on google 1st page . We have done everything , content writing , back links, comments ..etc also spent huge money on google ads and Facebook ads, but no use for it. I have checked many website and their back link is very …
Googlebot is crawling my AMP pages more than they are crawling my desktop pages. I have the appropriate canonical from AMP to desktop and amphtml from desktop to AMP. The desktop version also has a self-referencing canonical. Only canonical pages are in the sitemap. This is a concern because less …
There was a huge fluctuation in the SERPS yesterday that left a lot of people baffled by the unannounced algorithm ... until Google officially announced it was a bug that was rolled out. Unlike just about everyone who commented on WW, SEW, etc., I actually fared well from it, until …
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