Google: You Can't Tell Which SEO Efforts Led To Ranking Success

John Mueller from Google shared something both funny and mostly true about SEO tasks. He basically said that it is often hard or even sometimes impossible to know which SEO tasks led to ranking success, even after it is all set and done. John said on Twitter "you can't even tell afterwards" which SEO tasks worked or not.

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Google AdSense Support Team Going Offline For 18 Days For Holidays

The Google AdSense support team will be offline from December 17, 2021 to January 4, 2022 - a full 18-days. Google said the team is going offline for the holidays and that you should use the help forums and self help during that 18-day period.

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Google Ads Console Was Offline For A Couple Of Hours This Morning

Not only did we have a two hour Google Search indexing outage this morning, but between around 3am ET and 5am ET the Google Ads interface and advertising console was offline as well. We saw numerous reports from advertisers about the outage this morning.

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Stitched Dino T-Rex

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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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