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Google publishes new link best practices

Written by GK Web Agency on February 18, 2023. Posted in Google Ads, WEB DESIGN, WORDPRESS, SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION, SOCIAL MEDIA, BRISBANE WEB AGENCY.

This help document went from basics on crawlable links to a much more robust link best practices. Google uses links as a signal when determining the relevancy of pages and to find new pages to crawl. Learn how to make your links crawlable so that Google can find other pages on your site via the...

Black hat SEO: 4 tactics you should avoid

Written by GK Web Agency on May 29, 2022. Posted in Google Ads, WEB DESIGN, SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION, SOCIAL MEDIA, BRISBANE WEB AGENCY.

Using black hat SEO counts as unethical attempts to manipulate search engines and can lead to real setbacks. In the worst case, a website may be downloaded or not ranked at all. Search engines like Google have become increasingly keen on identifying various tricks. There are several different...

Google Business Profile

Written by GK Web Agency on November 5, 2021. Posted in Google Ads, WEB DESIGN, WORDPRESS, SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION, SOCIAL MEDIA, BRISBANE WEB AGENCY.

Google My Business now known as Google Business Profile as Google migrates features to Maps and Search. Google is renaming Google My Business to Google Business Profile, as it moves efforts to bringing more of the business profile management out of the Google My Business app and directly into...

GoogleBot to soon crawl over HTTP/2

Written by GK Web Agency on September 18, 2020. Posted in Google Ads, WEB DESIGN, WORDPRESS, SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION, SOCIAL MEDIA, BRISBANE WEB AGENCY.

Quick summary: Starting November 2020, Googlebot will start crawling some sites over HTTP/2. Ever since mainstream browsers started supporting the next major revision of HTTP, HTTP/2 or h2 for short, web professionals asked us whether Googlebot can crawl over the upgraded, more modern version of...

Google to treat nofollow link attribute as a ‘hint’

Written by GK Web Agency on September 11, 2019. Posted in Google Ads, WEB DESIGN, WORDPRESS, SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION, SOCIAL MEDIA, BRISBANE WEB AGENCY.

Google is also adding two new link attributes, one for sponsored links and one for user generated content links.Google has announced Tuesday that today the nofollow link attribute (i.e. rel=”nofollow“) will be seen as a “hint” rather than as a directive for ranking purposes. In addition, Google...