Google announced its decision to remove links to Canadian news from its Search, News, and Discover products in response to Canada’s recently enacted Bill C-18. Unfortunately, we’ve made the difficult decision that when Bill C-18 takes effect, we will remove Canadian news links from our Search, News and Discover products. https://t.co/ilWrF1uRuS pic.twitter.com/wMdoignNlC — Google Canada … Read more
Looking to boost rankings of key product pages while also driving secondary KPIs? Hoping to get your products on the first page of Google? On June 7, I moderated a webinar with Cory Collins, Nick Katseanes, and Kimberly Brown of Page One Power who showed us a unique, full-funnel approach. In that webinar, they shared … Read more
Google’s John Mueller participated in an interesting conversation on Mastodon about linking between sites that are different languages and whether or not that may impact rankings. The person asking the question was afraid that receiving links from a non-English language site to their English language site might negatively affect that sites ability to rank. There … Read more
The purpose of this Jupyter Notebook is to introduce the Moz Links API using Python. This should work on any notebook hosting environment, such as Google Colab. If you’re looking at this on Github, the code snippets can be copy/pasted into your own notebook environment. By the time you’ve run this script to the bottom, … Read more
What exactly IS an API? They’re those things that you copy and paste long strange codes into Screaming Frog for links data on a Site Crawl, right? I’m here to tell you there’s so much more to them than that – if you’re willing to take just a few little steps. But first, some basics. … Read more
Feel like you’re at link building capacity? Could you build more links with more time or a larger SEO team? Even small teams have been able to build over 1,000 backlinks per month. Seem impossible? We have good news. Link building at scale is possible. On May 17, I moderated a webinar with Kevin Rowe, … Read more
LinkedIn has become a different kind of social space. What used to be a place to post job openings has become a go-to hub of thought leadership and engaging content for job-seekers, employees, investors and customers alike. This content explosion isn’t imagined. According to LinkedIn, platform members viewed 22% more Feed updates in 2022, year … Read more
Google’s John Mueller commented in a Twitter discussion about the supposed ranking power of links from news sites and offered a different way of thinking about how Google treats those links. Links from Viral PR Campaigns The discussion on Twitter started with a tweet by Patrick Stox, commenting on an article he wrote for AHREFS … Read more
At face value, the average website user cannot tell whether a link is Nofollow or Dofollow. You can copy or click on a Nofollow link just the same as they do any other link on the web. Behind the scenes, however, there is quite a big difference. Google considers Dofollow links a vote of confidence … Read more
Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller says you should always try to replace internal links pointing to HTTP URLs with the newer HTTP versions. This is stated in a Reddit thread asking if it’s worth the effort to replace internal HTTP links with HTTPS versions, even when there are already redirects. Several years ago, Google’s Gary … Read more
The advent of the internet gave travel companies a whole new avenue for exposure. Where once you may have had to rely on outdated brochures, grainy photos, or (worst of all) Uncle Gary’s boring slide show about his trip to Bermuda, now anyone can create, curate, and share photos, videos, and stories from their vacation … Read more
This week’s Ask an SEO question comes from John in London, England, who asks: “I came here from your post Should You Use Nofollow, Sponsored, or UGC Links? In the ‘Affiliate Links’ paragraph you write, ‘These should be sponsored because you are posting them with the goal of earning a commission.’ My question is, should … Read more
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Are you a victim of so-called “link building experts”? Do the methods, results, and communication about their backlink services seem odd? Sadly, there are a lot of link building tactics that are morally questionable or just plain ineffective. Register now and learn how to create expert content that drives organic traffic, earns links, and helps … Read more
If you manage a website, it’s important to check for broken internal links regularly. Broken internal links can frustrate visitors and cause them to leave your site. They can also hurt your website’s search engine optimization (SEO). But don’t worry. There are ways that you can easily find and fix these broken links yourself. It … Read more
In a Google SEO Office hours hangout, someone asked Googler John Mueller related the situation of articles talking about his site but that the mentions of the brand name or domain name were not linked to his site. What he wanted to know was if those mentions of his domain and brand name could pass … Read more
Google’s John Mueller recently answered the question of whether internal links in the footer or header are used differently by Google. Google’s John Mueller gave an explanation of the slight difference in how Google treats the main content of a page and shed light on how Google treats internal links within a web page. Internal … Read more
Every website on the Internet, no matter how small or large, is under some form of attack by a user-generated content spammer or a spambot. Increasingly, many of the attacks are focused on hiding links because links are a high-value commodity, fetching hundreds of dollars each. The following solutions will help stop these attacks and … Read more
An informal and non-scientific poll on Twitter indicates that most SEOs, by a significantly large margin, ignore spammy links rather than spend time disavowing them. The subsequent comments aligned with the poll results, but some SEOs shared how their approach was more nuanced and why disavowing makes sense to them under specific circumstances. Link Disavow … Read more
