Google Sent 2.9 Million Manual Webspam Actions In 2020; Less Than Previous Years

While Google already published its annual web spam report for 2020, yesterday Google also published a bit more details on how the company tackled webspam in 2020. Specifically, Google said it sent out less manual webspam actions than previous years, 2.9 million in 2020, due to its algorithms tackling the spam automatically.

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How an SEO Product Manager Can Be Your Chief Problem Solver via @sejournal, @Kevin_Indig

Does your organization need an SEO Product Manager? Learn more about the benefits of applying a product development mindset to search.

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Microsoft Announces Unified Campaign Pilot Including Google, Facebook, Instagram & More via @sejournal, @hoffman8

Users can manage multi-channel paid campaigns and organic social all from Microsoft's new tool. Here's what you need to know!

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Google Warns of Manual Actions for UGC Spam via @sejournal, @martinibuster

A warning of penalties for User Generated Content (UGC) spam was published by Google. Publishers encouraged to follow these tips

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Google: SEO Does Not Cause Visible Problems On Websites

Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that he has "never seen a site where that was an issue which caused visible problems with SEO." I wonder if any of you have. I suspect where SEOs stuff up the pages with content where it causes the page flow to be weird? Maybe some hacked spam SEO causing issues (but that is hacking, not SEO really).

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Google Tests Expandable More Specific Searches

In April we saw Google testing a new related search box named more specific searches. Now, we are seeing Google test an expandable version of the more specific searches.

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Poll: 56% Of SEOs Say Fewer Than 40% Of Their SEO Recommendations Are Implemented

Kristina Azarenko posted an outstanding SEO poll on Twitter asking on average, how many of your SEO recommendations get implemented? The results show that 56% of SEOs who answered the poll said that fewer than 40% of their recommendations are actually implemented.

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Google NYC Physical Store Sign with Bunny

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