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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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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