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Google says that H1 tags are useful but not critical for SEO purpose

We have kept saying that one of the most helpful things for any SEO professional is to join the Google Webmasters Hangout session which is conducted by John Mueller. Google’s John Mueller often conducts these sessions during office hours. Now, there have been a lot of great things that have come out

Abhishek · October 1, 2019
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Google says that embedded and hotlinked images do not count as links

You must have seen several cases where people just download an image from your site, upload it on their site and use it as they like. Now, there are two issues here while taking your image. First of all, there are many out there who don’t even source your image properly and give credits. And [&helli

Abhishek · September 27, 2019
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Google says emailing Google support for SEO support never works

If you are someone who is looking for SEO advice, Google is the first place where you would go. Unless and until you have someone who has a solid knowledge of SEO whom you can contact directly. However, it is still the best to re-verify what you have learnt by checking on Google once. However, [&hel

Kewei Lin · September 26, 2019
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’Dates in URLs are fine’ says Google with respect to rankings

We have seen a lot of instances where either Google has replied to something or John Mueller from Google has. Now, the questions might be very intense or they might also be very basic in nature. However, John does not avoid them and educates the user in regards to SEO which is a great thing [&hellip

Abhishek · September 24, 2019
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Google says that you can use old content on a new domain

There has been a common belief in the world of SEO that there are a lot of misconceptions which need to be cleared. However, the problem is that we do not get those misconceptions cleared as Google does not have enough time to do so. But we also have the services of John Mueller who […]

Abhishek · September 21, 2019
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You can now report offensive images in Google Web Search Results

At this point in time, you must have noted that Google is one of the best search engines if not the best. One of the big reasons why this is the case is because Google offers a various different type of search results. If you want to read the news, you can go to the […]

Kewei Lin · September 19, 2019
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Google shortens length of title in Search by 5 characters on average

Google has made a massive change in its search results which will sound extremely minor to you. It is that the character length of titles for articles in Google Search has been shortened. On average, it is reported that the company has reduced the length by 5 characters. As we mentioned earlier, you

Abhishek · September 17, 2019
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Google says you don’t need to disavow nofollow links

We have seen that there are a lot of things that you need to take care of if you are an SEO professional. This is because the whole performance of a website depends on the links that you build and the actions that you take. Now, one of the main things that were done in […]

Abhishek · September 13, 2019
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Google adds two new link attributes, Sponsored and UGC

Google is one of those companies which takes care of most websites currently available on Search. This is because of the domination of Google Search in all the search engines that are currently available. Talking about Google Search, we know that Google has to make some tweaks to its search algorith

Abhishek · September 12, 2019
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Google says that they can’t determine if content is accurate or not

We have seen that there are a lot of things that depend on Google’s search algorithm. There are millions of websites currently on the world wide web and most of them are also listed inside Google Search. Now, all these websites get ranked according to Google’s search algorithm which can be hard to u

Abhishek · September 11, 2019
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Headings don’t matter when it comes to ranking says Google

One of the best things that have happened to the SEO community is the clarifications that we get from John Mueller straight out of Google. While we know that Google cannot come out and clear everyone’s doubts, John is there for that purpose. Now, one of the things that people have been asking the mo

Kewei Lin · September 10, 2019
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Google explains how the URLs shown in Search results are picked

One of the first question that someone who is getting into SEO would have is how exactly does Google rank the websites that you see in Google Search. Ranking a website means that giving them rank in terms of positions. The first position URL that you see in Google Search is ranked number 1 and [&hel

Abhishek · September 7, 2019

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