Yet More Google Search Ranking Algorithm Tremors Over The Weekend
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It has been one rocky month with both Google organic search ranking updates and local search ranking updates. This weekend there is chatter and signals of yet another Google search ranking algorithm update this weekend. The chatter started Friday and has continued through the weekend and even the tools are showing fluctuations.
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 19, 2019
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
Microsoft Advertising Editor Has Been Redesigned
Microsoft announced that it has redesigned the Microsoft Advertising Editor, formerly known as Bing Ads Editor. This is available for both Windows and Mac.
Google: We Do Not Penalize Sites Using Old School HTML & Tables
Google's John Mueller had to say on Twitter again that Google does not penalize sites using old school HTML, like old table designs or invalid HTML. He said "no, we don't penalize sites that use old-school (or invalid, table-designs, etc) HTML."
Hey; Bing Has Been Doing The BERT Thing Since April
I mentioned this before, but did you know that Bing has been using BERT since April of this year. That is about 6-months prior to when Google started using it. Also, Bing said in this blog post that BERT like "models are now applied to every Bing search query globally." Google only applies it to English queries in the US right now, and all featured snippets.
Google: GoogleBot Won't Request Google Analytics & Many Other Ad Scripts When Crawling
Martin Splitt of Google said on stage at SMX East that Google won't request Google Analytics and many other ad scripts when crawling your site. This saves in terms of resources and crawl efficiency. I asked Martin later on to list out all the things GoogleBot won't crawl specifically, because it is useful to know.
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