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Google’s John Mueller said that if your website is www.domain.com and then you decide to canonicalize it as non-www, so it goes to domain.com from www.domain.com, that change wouldn’t have a big impact on your rankings. He wrote on Reddit: “This will not cause problems with search visibility / rankings / indexing – when the canonical URL changes, it just changes.” The topic published in Reddit to read: I joined CloudFlare and set up my…

Google’s John Mueller answered a question on Reddit about what to do about an increase in spammy backlinks that are perceived to have a negative impact on rankings. Mueller’s response showed what editors should focus on. Noticing spammy backlinks The person who asked the question said that they had noticed an increase in spam backlinks and associated this with a negative impact on their rankings. They also said it was affecting their “overall credibility”. They…

Next article TikTok’s Creator Search Insights tool will help creators find trending searches what is the story TikTok is launching a new monetization scheme, called Creator Rewards, with the aim of encouraging creators to produce content with high search relevance. Creators who have revenue on the platform will now be paid in part based on the relevance of their content. TikTok refers to it as “search value,” one of four key factors that influence creator…

John Mueller of Google responded to a question on LinkedIn to discuss the use of an unsupported noindex directive in his own personal website’s robots.txt. He explained the pros and cons of search engine support for the directive and provided insight into Google’s internal discussions about its support. Robots.txt by John Mueller Mueller’s robots.txt has been a topic of conversation for the past week due to the general weirdness of the strange and non-standard directives…

ToddStager.com SEO luminary Todd Stager launches ToddStager.com, a dynamic agency offering tailored SEO strategies beyond the legal realms, emphasizing transparency and innovation for measurable success. Todd Stager SEO luminary Todd Stager launches ToddStager.com, a dynamic agency offering tailored SEO strategies beyond the legal realms, emphasizing transparency and innovation for measurable success. San Mateo, CA, March 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — In a major industry development, Todd Stager, known for his exceptional SEO expertise for lawyers,…

Google is making a number of changes to its executive team that runs Google Search: Liz Reidwho led core search experiences, will now be Google’s head of search. Cheenu Venkatacharya will be the new leader in search quality and ranking. With these changes, Pandu Nayak is leaving his role as leader of search quality and ranking to become chief search scientist. In another change, Cathy Edwards he moves to the long-term Betting team in Knowledge…

OpenAI’s Sam Altman answered questions about challenging Google’s search monopoly and reveals that he would rather completely change the paradigm of how people get information than copy what Google has done for the past twenty years. His remarks were made in the context of a Lex Fridman podcast interview. What Altman proposed is that the best way to challenge Google is to completely replace its entire business category, including advertising. 1. Is Building OpenAI a…

YouTube has announced the introduction of a new tool in Creator Studio that requires creators to disclose when their videos contain realistic AI-generated or altered content. As stated in the YouTube ad: “Viewers increasingly want transparency about whether the content they’re watching is altered or synthetic.” To address this growing demand, YouTube will now require creators to inform their audience when a video includes content that could easily be mistaken for a real person, place…

TikTok has launched its new creator rewards program and introduced a search statistics tool. The program, which was previously in beta, rewards creators based on four key metrics: Originality Play Duration Search Value Audience Engagement The new Creator Search Insights tool provides data on trending search topics, helping you create content that meets TikTok’s requirements for “search value.” Here are the details about the new monetization program and keyword research tool. Emphasis on the value…

Advertisers trying to export reports from the Google Ads Report Editor are experiencing issues where the data is showing zeros instead of the actual numbers. Google is aware of the issue and is working on a fix, but there is no estimated time to fix it at this time. What’s the problem. Greg Kohler, aka PPCGreg published a screenshot of a sample report export full of blank data and/or zeros. Here’s that screenshot: There are…