Google: Keep Your Site Up To Date; No One Drinks Sarsaparilla

Jun 10, 2019 - 7:41 am 5 by

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Google updated one of its documents on how to help people find your site on Google. In that document, they added a line that reads "Keep your site up to date: If your restaurant website hasn't updated its menu since 1925, then update it; there aren't a lot of customers searching for sarsparilla these days." Yes, they even linked to Wikipedia for that so you can see that Sarsaparilla is a soft drink that was popular in the United States in the 19th century.

Super funny and Marie Haynes spotted it and posted it on Twitter - here is a screen shot :

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Who wrote this? A guy named Josh at Google:

I honestly love these finds...

Forum discussion at Twitter.

This post was pre-written and scheduled to be posted today, I am currently offline.

 

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