Google Seems To Be Not Indexing Or Crawling New Content This Morning (Update Fixed)

It seems like Google is having a major indexing or crawling issue this morning - again. Google seems to have not picked up on new content in the past hour or two. You can see sites like the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and niche publishers like TechCrunch and The Verge are not seeing their new published content show up in the Google Search results.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 15, 2021

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...

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Google: Links Are Not Mandatory For Ranking In Google Search

Google's John Mueller said again that having links to your site is not a requirement and not mandatory for ranking in Google Search. He said this back in 2015 as well, but said again in 2021 that links are not a requirement to rank.

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Google Local Maps Spam Big Cleanup Or Big Mess?

There has been a lot of local SEOs talking about the big shake up in the local results over the past week. It might be related to a local search algorithm update (Google has not confirmed it yet) or might be some spam fighting efforts. But I am seeing both complaints about there now being too much local spam and also folks saying Google has cleaned up a lot of spam.

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Google: We Won't Penalize Your Site For Not Nofollowing Affiliate Links

Google's John Mueller confirmed again that Google won't likely penalize or give your site a manual action if you do not add a nofollow or rel sponsored attribute to your affiliate links. He said this at the 31:58 mark in this past Friday's video.

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