Google May Be Showing More Web Stories In Top Stories

John Shehata shared a chart from his Newzdash service that showed how Google is showing more web stories in the top positions of the top stories carousel in the mobile search results. John said on Twitter "I am starting to see more and more web stories in Google Search Top Stories (News Box) carousels. The numbers are still small."


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Google: Rel Sponsored Not Needed For Internal Links To Affiliate Product Reviews

You do not need to nofollow or use a rel sponsored attribute on your internal links, even if those internal links lead to sponsored reviews content with affiliate links to those products. Lily Ray asked Google's John Mueller about this and John said while half away, the link attributes are not needed.


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Google: Stock Levels Should Not Impact Search Rankings

Google's John Mueller was asked if stock levels can impact the ranking of products on an e-commerce site. John implied that the answer is no, he said "that seems unrelated, at least for normal search. It might impact product search but he is not sure if it will or won't - but normal web search, it should not impact.


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Google Search Console Office Corner

Google Search Console Office Corner Area


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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 4, 2022

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.

Google Search Console's international targeting setting can take weeks to kick in...



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