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Google’s Gary Illyes said this morning that he is “hunting” for spammy EMDs, exact match domains, that are ranking in Google. He said this on Twitter two different ways this morning. First he said he is looking for the spammy EMDs:

The past month in the Google webmaster and SEO sphere, relatively, was a slow month in terms of big changes. We had maybe two algorithm shifts this month that are still unconfirmed by Google. Google did make changes to Google News and Google Trends but that is a niche of Google....

So let’s say you decided to update the content on a page on your web site, the content is super out dated and needs a major revamp. When you update the content, it doesn’t mean you need to put that new content on a new URL, you can just update the content on the...

We discussed a few months ago how Google dumped the GDPR responsibilities on their AdSense publishers and customers, as opposed to taking responsibility themselves for the liability. Well, it resulted in a massive publisher group of 4,000 publishers writing a scathing 5-page...

It has been about 6 months since Google released an update to the Google AdWords Editor, the last update was version 12.2 which launched in November 2017. This new version adds search terms report, account-level extensions, functions in search filters and custom rules, sped up ad...

So Google announced the other day, as I covered at Search Engine Land, that they are keeping their “current practices regarding the AdWords API Terms and Conditions and the domain-by-domain opt-out following the expiration of the voluntary commitments.” That means,...

We’re finally here. Set up one ad with multiple headlines and a couple of descriptions, and Google will start testing combinations dynamically to serve the combination deemed most likely to achieve the advertiser’s stated goal. Oh, and get more real estate than a standard text ad...

Google has officially updated its job posting guidelines and says if you violate those guidelines, your site can receive a manual action. Google has announced new job posting guidelines for job schema. The new guidelines can be read here. They include the requirement to remove...

Google has confirmed rumors that a search algorithm update took place on Monday. Some sites may have seen their rankings improve, while others may have seen negative or zero change. Google has posted on Twitter that it released a “broad core algorithm update” this past Monday....

After suspending rehab facility advertisers last year, Google will begin accepting these ads once again in July — but only from certified providers. As promised last month, Google has introduced a new certification process for rehabilitation and addiction treatment...