Tag Archives: Seo

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”

We knew it was coming, Google Ads now supports negative keywords for brand safety at the account level. Google has just added account-level negative keywords to Google Ads and the PPC community is happy about it.I spotted this first via Melissa Mackey on Twitter who credits @NilsRooijmanSEA with the find on LinkedIn. Melissa wrote, “Account-levelContinueContinue reading “Google Ads Gains Account-Level Negative Keywords”

Last December, we caught Google testing an experimental feature named content ideas in Google Search Console. Well, yesterday, Google sent more invites to this feature but noted the feature is only available until March 28, 2023 and then it goes away.Both Robin Dirksen on Twitter and Deepak Ness on Twitter shared screenshots of this featureContinueContinue reading “Google Search Console Content Ideas Going Away March 28th?”

Google is testing a new design for the trusted store badge in the paid shopping results. The Google Trusted Stores program to all U.S. merchants back in 2012, along with that came a badge in the search results to make those listings stand out.FYI – here is how to qualify for this trusted store badge.BrianContinueContinue reading “Google Tests New Trusted Store Badge”