Category Archives: Digital Marketing

Google is still recommending that you Nofollow your credit links in your footer, if you have control over those links. So the site designed by or powered by or made by types of links, nofollow those links if you can. If you can’t – then don’t worry about it, Google added.This question came up atContinueContinue reading “Google: Nofollow Site Credit Links Footer Links If You Control Them”

Google has posted one of its Google SEO office-hours, this one was posted today, recorded in January, after the Google layoffs news, and one question asked was about keyword density – yep. John Mueller from Google said, “no, Google does not have a notion of optimal keyword density.”This repeats what Google has been saying forContinueContinue reading “Google Search Still Does Not Have Optimal Keyword Density”

Gary Illyes from the Google Search Relations team posted another PSA on LinkedIn. This time he said, “when you redesign a site, its rankings in search engines may go nuts.”Yes, this is probably super obvious to most of you reading this site but Gary dives a bit deeper.He said, “Among other things, search engines useContinueContinue reading “Google: If You Redesign Your Site Your Rankings May Go Nuts”

Gary Illyes from from the Google Search Relations team posted another PSA on LinkedIn, this one says “don’t use relative paths in your rel-canonical.” Gary wants you to use the full, absolute URL, when it coms to rel-canonical.Here is his post:This is not new advice, Google said this in 2018 and in 2013 – butContinueContinue reading “Google Don’t Use Relative Paths In Your rel-canonical”

Gary Illyes, from the Google Search Relations team, said on LinkedIn that Google Search handles the marquee HTML tag “appropriately.” What does it mean by appropriately? That is Gary for you.I assume it means Google can read the text within the marquee HTML tag.The marquee HTML element is used to insert a scrolling area ofContinueContinue reading “Gary Illyes: Google Search Handles marquee Tags Appropriately”