Daily Search Forum Recap: December 23, 2021

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Most SEOs say they spend 25% or less of their time focused on link building...

from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/3sx36jY

Survey Says: Most SEOs Spend Less Than 25% Of Their Time With Link Building

Yesterday, I posted a poll asking what percentage of your time as an SEO is spent doing link building. The Twitter poll has a ton of responses, over X, and it seems like the majority of SEOs spend less than 25% of their time focused directly on link building tasks.

from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/3J6JUiO

No, Google Doesn't Use Google Analytics 4 For Ranking Purposes

Google's John Mueller posted a very necessary clarification that Google does not use Google Analytics 4 for ranking purposes. Just like Google said countless times it does not use Google Analytics in its ranking algorithm, so to with the new Google Analytics 4.

from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/3yUqWat

SEO Holiday Gift: Waking Up To $80,000 In New Traffic This Week

There is a Reddit thread I found via John Mueller that claims a site owner woke up to an additional $80,000 in monthly traffic. The person said that over the past several days his traffic skyrocketed 6,000 percent because his rankings for a very competitive term reached the fifth position in Google Search.

from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/3stLEwB

Google Image Search Section For "Top Categorized Results" - Confused?

Google Image search on mobile has these labels for sections of the images it sometimes shows in the search results. A new label I have not seen before is showing "top categorized results." I have no clue what that means - do you?

from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/3mu0502