Google: Nofollow Link Attribute Is Working Fairly Well
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Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that the nofollow link attribute has been and still is working fairly well. He added hasn't "seen many cases of sites causing themselves significant issues, or of pages not getting credit in quite some time."
Google Posts Reminder On How Structured Data Can Richen Search Results
Daniel Waisberg, who recently moved to the Google search team, posted his first blog post under his new position. In the blog post he posted a reminder on how structured data can help richen up the search results. There is nothing new in the blog post, but it is a nice reminder of how using schema and markup can help give you a competitive edge in search.
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 24, 2019
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
Google Can See Disavow Links Between Canonical URLs
Google's John Mueller said it is best to disavow all the possible places the link may be pointing to, even if you redirect one URL to another and someone is linking to the original URL. But he said Google can follow and see "links between canonical URLs, so when there's a redirect involved, you'd need to check which one is canonical."
Searchers Upset That Easter Got Google Treatment While Passover, Ramadan & Others Did Not
Google on Sunday had a pretty unique and new home page feature for Easter. It was the first time they did something like this in general but not the first time they had an Easter Google Doodle. There was no Doodle, but if you clicked on the I'm Feeling Lucky button, Easter eggs would drop and fill up the page.
Google Images, Featured Snippets & Videos More Often In Web Search Results
It looks like Google is showing more vertical search features in the core web search results - more often. Yesterday I covered at Search Engine Land that the image search box is showing up way more often in Google's web results than previously. But also it looks like featured snippets and maybe even video boxes are showing up more often this past month.
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