Daily Search Forum Recap: January 31, 2022

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...

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Google: No One Infected By Untitled Search Spam Issue

Danny Sullivan of Google said that no one was infected by the search spam issue around untitled documents. He said this is a spam issue, not a malware issue and "no one is infected with anything." Sullivan added that the spam team is already on the issue and things are already improving.

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How Does Location Of Internal Links On A Page Matter For SEO & Google Search

Google's John Mueller said the location of internal links, links you place on your website to other parts of that same web site, does not necessarily matter if they are in the body content, footer, header or other sections on the page. The content, the anchor text, of those links helps Google understand what the page is about but the links aren't really used more than just for crawling your site.

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Google Penalizing News Publishers With Manual Actions For Discover & Google News

About a year ago, Google first introduced guidelines around manual actions for Google Discover and Google News. In the past week, I have seen numerous news publishers, both large and small, receive such manual actions.

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Breadcrumb & HowTo Google Search Console Errors Reporting Changed

Google has said it changed the error and issues reporting in Google Search Console for Breadcrumbs and HowTo structured data. This may result in new errors, warnings and issues or changes to the severity of the issues already reported by Google in Search Console's enhancement reports.

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