SEO

Google: Crawling Doesn't Mean Indexing, Indexing Doesn't Mean Ranking

This is probably SEO 101 but often even those who do SEO every day, they are so in the weeds that the basics kind of slip away. Martin Splitt of Google summed it up by saying just because Google may crawl a page, it does not mean that page will be in Google's index. Also just because a page is in its index, it does not mean it will rank in Google Search.

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Google Talks Rendering, Indexing, SEO & Developer Relations, Conferences & Bitcoin Scams

In the latest version of Google's Search Off the Record podcast with John Mueller, Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt. They spoke about a ton of topics including rendering, indexing, SEO and developer relations, the unconference and next conference and just a lot of joking around. But they also said that Bitcoin miners cannot use Google's resources to mine Bitcoin.

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Google Local & Maps Displays Health & Safety On Search Results

We now have some folks seeing the health and safety attributes that businesses have been able to add to their Google My Business listings back over a months ago, on the front end of Google's search results Google Maps results.

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Google AdSense Vignette Ads Now Supported On Wider Screens

Google posted that vignette ads are now supported on wider screens. Google wrote "vignette ads now support a larger range of screen sizes. For sites that have vignettes turned on, vignette ads will soon start to appear on wider screens such as desktop."