Vlog #88: Drew Madore On User Experience Signals As Google Ranking Factors

In part one of my vlog with Drew Madroe we talked about how black hat SEO has changed...

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October 2020 Google Webmaster Report

It has been an interesting month with Google Search. We saw numerous bugs with Google Search around canonicalization, mobile-indexing, news indexing, top stories carousel, and many of those may have been associated with my reports of possible Google updates. Google gave us more clues around broad core updates and recoveries.

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Bing Intelligent Question Answers Supported In Over 100 Languages

Bing said its intelligent questions and answers search feature is now supported in over 100 different languages. It is all powered by Bing's use of machine learning and artificial intelligence.

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GoogleBot Does Not Use Nutch

Britney Muller spotted someone using Apache Nutch with a GoogleBot useragent name when crawling a site. Google has confirmed GoogleBot does not use Nutch in its useragent. Nutch is "highly extensible and scalable open source web crawler software project."

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Google Shares Details On The Canonicalization & Mobile-Indexing Bugs

Google has shared some more details around the indexing issues around canonicalization and mobile-indexing. Google answered some of the questions I asked them when they confirmed the issue last week around when it happened and how large the issue was.

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