Daily Search Forum Recap: December 28, 2022

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

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Google: Links On YouTube Won't Help Your Google Rankings & SEO

An SEO asked if links on YouTube videos will help with your Google SEO. Then someone said that it would help get your content indexed faster. Both are false and myths because YouTube links have nofollow attributes on them, so Google does not count them.

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Google: Building Your Site On Bad Links Over Time Will Have A Lasting Effect

Google's John Mueller provided some advice on a site that seemed to have been hit due to bad links. He said on Mastodon, "If you've built the foundation of your site on bad links for a longer period of time, that will have a lasting effect even if you suddenly fix some things."

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Catching Up On Bing Search User Interface & Search Experiments

Over the past several weeks, I've been collecting a number of Microsoft Bing search experiments and user interface tests. It has slowed down a bit this week, so I'll share most of them below.

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PSA: Google's Passage Indexing / Ranking Helps Google Better Understand Messy Content

It has been a while since I heard anyone talk about Google's passage indexing, technically should be passage<<� ranking. So when it came up on Mastodon again, I figured I'd remind you all what it is and what it is not.

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Google Speed Bumps

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