Google: We Use Many Signals To Detect Guest Posts, It's Not Just Link Anchor Text

Google's John Mueller was asked how Google detects and determines if a piece of content is written as a guest post? John said "we use lots of different signals to try to figure out what might be a guest post." He added, it is not just that the anchor text makes the guest post problematic.

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Google Merchant Center Adds Reporting For Google Shopping Deals Badges

Google announced that it is not only showing more flavors of deal badges and showcases but also has added more reporting to the performance report in the Google Merchant Center to report on these deal badges.

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Banana Man At The GooglePlex

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Google Said The Penguin Algorithm May Not Just Ignore Links, It May Target Whole Site

When Google released Penguin 4.0, Google said that update was about devaluing links, not demoting links. Meaning, Google would simply ignore the spammy and bad links and your website would not be demoted because of those links. Well, Google said sometimes Penguin can also demote your site.

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Google Logo Wishes You An imPECKable Halloween

Google has a special Doodle, Google logo, on its home page today and last night for Halloween. The theme of this Halloween Doodle is around wishing Google searchers an "imPECKable Halloween."

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