{"id":7010,"date":"2023-07-10T15:26:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T15:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/?p=7010"},"modified":"2023-07-10T15:26:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T15:26:09","slug":"google-shows-how-its-basic-seo-tips-havent-changed-in-two-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/?p=7010","title":{"rendered":"Google shows how its basic SEO tips haven&#8217;t changed in two decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Google Search Link Danny Sullivan posted that Google&#8217;s basic tips for ranking well in Google Search haven&#8217;t changed in two decades.  Google showed a screenshot of its advice from 2002 where it wrote: &#8220;Make pages for users, not search engines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is the same advice that Google offers today in its <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/search\/docs\/fundamentals\/creating-helpful-content\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">creating useful content<\/a> documentation<\/p>\n<p>Google <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/searchliaison\/status\/1677006067098845185\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he wrote<\/a>&#8220;&#8221;Build pages for users, not search engines.&#8221; &#8212; Google, 2002. Our good advice remains the same two decades later. To succeed in Google Search, focus on content of people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here is the screenshot from 2002:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-advice-2002-1688905439.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/images.seroundtable.com\/t-google-advice-2002-1688905439.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"326\" alt=\"click for full size\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a screenshot from now, two decades later:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-advice-2022-1688905439.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/images.seroundtable.com\/t-google-advice-2022-1688905439.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"469\" alt=\"click for full size\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Me being me, I asked if this is a sign that something is brewing since we&#8217;re seeing insane volatility, but Google hasn&#8217;t confirmed an update yet.<\/p>\n<p>Danny Sullivan replied to me, saying, &#8220;Just a good tip worth sharing. I also recently tried to locate the first time we talked about building for people, not search rankings, and it seems to have been in 2002 . I suspect even before. then, though.&#8221;  He added: &#8220;Also, sometimes people think that the tips for being successful at Google change all the time, and well, this is the basic tip that hasn&#8217;t changed in over two decades.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here are those tweets:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">something is being prepared????<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Barry Schwartz (@rustybrick) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rustybrick\/status\/1677006636433432586?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 6, 2023<\/a> <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Also sometimes people think that the tips to be successful at Google change all the time and well, this is the basic tip that hasn&#8217;t changed for over two decades \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/searchliaison\/status\/1677007253994631168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 6, 2023<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Discussion in the forum a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/searchliaison\/status\/1677007253994631168\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seroundtable.com\/google-core-seo-advice-unchanged-35676.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Search Link Danny Sullivan posted that Google&#8217;s basic tips for ranking well in Google Search haven&#8217;t changed in two decades. Google showed a screenshot of its advice from 2002 where it wrote: &#8220;Make pages for users, not search engines.&#8221; This is the same advice that Google offers today in its creating useful content documentation Google he wrote&#8220;&#8221;Build pages for users, not search engines.&#8221; &#8212; Google, 2002. Our good advice remains the same two decades&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7012,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7010\/revisions\/7012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}