Vlog #98: Alan Rabinowitz On Ways To Rank Well In Google Search & Proper Online Reputation Management (Part Two)

In part one of my talk with Alan Rabinowitz, we spoke about his history in the space and about the nofollow link and if Google counts it. In part two Alan shares how to rank well in Google Search and how to do online reputation management...

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Bing Tests Boxed Embossed Look On Snippets When Cursor Overlays

Here is another search results interface, this one is from Microsoft Bing. Bing is testing that when you overlay your mouse cursor over a snippet, it protrudes the background of the snippet, making it boxed it, and embossed in the search results page. Frank Sandtmann sent me this GIF to share with you all.

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Google Ads To Prohibits Ads For Sugar Dating: Compensated Dating Or Sexual Arrangements

Google announced that is will begin to prohibit what is called "sugar" dating, where there is compensated dating or sexual arrangements where one participant is expected to provide money, gifts, financial support, mentorship, or other valuable benefits to another participant.

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Google Tests New Top Stories Multi Grid Layout

Looks like Google is testing yet another layout for the top stories news box in the Google search results. Mateus Nunes from LiveCoins in Brazil sent me a screen shot on Twitter, where you can see this layout has a multiple layouts.

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Google: Avoid Blocking Pages That Are Important Enough To Have Links To Them

Google's John Mueller said he would advice that if "that's something where if you see that these pages are important enough that people are linking to them then I would try to avoid blocking them by robot's txt." In short, if you have important or popular pages with a lot of links to them, make sure Google can access the page.

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