Early Signs Of A Google Search Algorithm Update
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I am seeing some early signs that there may be a Google search algorithm update rolling out this morning. There is some early chatter in some of the forums and some, not all, of the automated tracking tools are also showing changes.
Google: Quality Raters Guidelines Are Not One-To-One With The Ranking Algorithm
I feel like Google has to spend more time telling SEOs to stop obsessing about specific details then helping with technical SEO issues and I called it with this one. Google's John Mueller had to say in this mornings hangout "quality rater guidelines is not one-to-one our ranking algorithm."
Google: Trust Associations & Memberships Are Not Used As Direct Ranking Factors
Since I posted about the the story the other day that Google does not use the BBB, Better Business Bureaus score or reviews as well as other third-party trust sites in their ranking algorithm it caused a lot of interesting and unexpected debate in the SEO industry. John Mueller from Google was asked again and he said they are not used as direct ranking factors in Google search this morning.
Google's Internal Search Quality Docs Kind Of Mirrors The Manual Actions Help Docs
Back at SMX East, Fili Wiese spoke about Google manual actions. He said while he was at Google years ago, he was tasked in writing Google's internal documents around search quality. He said based on his memory, those docs are a mirror on some level to the manual action help documents available publicly.
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 15, 2018
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web...
Google Tool Scores Your SEO: Should Google Be Scoring Your SEO?
The other day, Google launched a new portal named web.dev that pretty much has lighthouse, another Google tool, results for your audit. One of the lighthouse results is an SEO score. So I asked SEOs, should Google be scoring their SEO this way?
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