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    Google Page Experience Update To Launch May 2021 With New Snippet Labels

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    by rustybrick
    Nov 11, 2020
    Google announced that the Page Experience Update will be live in about 6-months, i.e. in May 2021. With that launch, Google will also be testing new visual indicators, like labels, in the search results to communicate to searchers if that page does well with the core web vitals metrics.

    Beware Of Google My Business Listings Hijackings

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    by rustybrick
    Nov 9, 2020
    Joy Hawkins, a local SEO expert, has said she has seen a "large increase" in the number of hijacked Google My Business listings over the past couple of months. There is this large Google My Business Help thread with almost a hundred posts in it about hackers trying to obtain ownership of their business listings.

    5 SEO Tactics to Maximize Internal Links — Whiteboard Friday

    Nov 5, 2020
    Resources for further reading:


    • Should SEOs Care About Internal Links?
    • Internal Linking Best Practices

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    Howdy, Moz fans! Welcome to another edition of Whiteboard Friday. I'm Cyrus Shepard, and today we are talking about internal links. Specifically, five SEO tactics to...

    Google Search Ranking Algorithm Disturbance On November 4th

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    by rustybrick
    Nov 5, 2020
    Over the past few days there has been chatter within the SEO industry about a possible Google Search ranking algorithm update. It may have started around November 3rd and continued through November 4th and today, November 5th. Google has not confirmed anything but between the SEO chatter and the tracking tools - there may have been a disturbance in the force.

    November 2020 Google Webmaster Report

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    by rustybrick
    Nov 4, 2020
    Last month was pretty busy, we had Google's big Search On 2020 event with BERT going 100%, passage indexing (and all the confusion around it)...

    Google Search Algorithm Update On October 28th?

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    by rustybrick
    Oct 30, 2020
    There is some chatter and some signs that there may have been a disturbance to the Google search ranking algorithm on October 28th. The chatter is not as high as a core update or a large update but both the chatter is higher than normal and there are some tools that show there may have been an update a couple of days ago.

    Sustainable Link Building: Increasing Your Chances of Getting Links — Best of Whiteboard Friday

    Oct 29, 2020
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    Hi, Moz fans. Welcome to Whiteboard Friday. I'm not Rand. I'm Paddy Moogan. I'm the cofounder of Aira. We're an agency in the UK, focusing on SEO, link building, and content marketing. You may have seen me write on the Moz Blog before, usually about link building. You may have read...

    Microsoft Bing May Be Having Search Indexing Issues

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    by rustybrick
    Oct 27, 2020
    Over the past few weeks, I have been seeing some reports that Microsoft Bing is having their own indexing issues. Meaning, Bing is not indexing pages like it use to for its search engine. Some thought it had to do with CloudFlare being blocked, but it might be more widespread than just that.

    4 Google My Business Fields That Impact Ranking (and 3 That Don't) — Whiteboard Friday

    Oct 22, 2020
    In this brand new Whiteboard Friday, MozCon speaker and owner/founder of Sterling Sky, Joy Hawkins, takes us through the fields she and her team has found do (and do not) effect rankings.



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    Hello, Moz fans. My name is Joy Hawkins, and today I'm going to be talking about...

    Google Squashes Myths Around Passage Indexing

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    by rustybrick
    Oct 21, 2020
    Let me start off by saying, I do not blame the SEO community for being confused over Google's announcement of passage indexing. Heck, Google called it "indexing" but then told me it is not indexing, it is a ranking thing. Why they called it that? I have no idea. But at least Google officially posted on public channels more information about it.