Google’s John Mueller clarifies a misconception about duplicate content, saying it’s not a negative search ranking factor. Having the same content repeated across multiple pages is not something that would cause a site to rank lower in search results. Mueller says it’s normal for sites to have a certain amount of duplicate content. Google’s algorithms are built to handle it. He touched on this topic last week, but it’s brought up again during this week’s Google Search Central SEO… Source link
Read More »Embedded Videos Have Same SEO Value as Uploaded Content
Google’s John Mueller says there’s no difference, when it comes to SEO, between embedded videos and videos natively uploaded to a website. This topic came up more than once during the Google Search Central SEO office-hours on January 29. Saidul Hoque, SEO Manager at RealClicks, started by asking a series of questions about video SEO. One of those questions involves Google’s perception of embedded content versus self-hosted content. Hoque asks: “Is there any difference between embedding… Source link
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Reuters Brazil to receive 10-14 mln AstraZeneca vaccine doses starting mid-February -health ministry Brazil will receive between 10 million and 14 million doses of AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine starting in mid February through the World Health Organization’s COVAX program, the health ministry said on Saturday. Brazil has had 58,462 new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus reported in the past 24 hours, and 1,279 deaths from COVID-19, the ministry said. The South American country… Source link
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Benzinga The Upcoming Catalyst That Could Move Chinese EV Stocks Nio, Xpeng, Li Auto Chinese electric vehicle stocks have seen some moderation in momentum in recent sessions. One upcoming catalyst could lift the stocks out of this lackluster phase: the January delivery numbers that are due next week. Finding The Sweet Spot In China’s EV Market: China is a hot EV market, both from the perspective of the addressable market opportunity and supply. “China is a greenfield EV market opportunity for… Source link
Read More »Google opens Dublin hub to tackle harmful online content
FILE PHOTO: A 3D printed Google logo is seen in this illustration taken April 12, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Alphabet unit Google on Wednesday opened a centre to tackle harmful online content, in a move also designed to ease regulatory concerns about how the company and other tech giants police a growing problem on the internet. The world’s most popular search engine, along with other U.S. tech giants, has drawn criticism because of the spread of… Source link
Read More »Google opens Dublin hub to tackle harmful online content
FILE PHOTO: A 3D printed Google logo is seen in this illustration taken April 12, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Alphabet unit Google on Wednesday opened a centre to tackle harmful online content, in a move also designed to ease regulatory concerns about how the company and other tech giants police a growing problem on the internet. The world’s most popular search engine, along with other U.S. tech giants, has drawn criticism because of the spread of… Source link
Read More »Google revives Australia news platform launch amid content payment fight
Benzinga Apple Expected To Join The $100 Billion Revenue Club When Earnings Are Released Did someone say $100 billion? And then some? Wall Street analysts did. A consensus sees Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) as joining that rarefied corporate crowd that’s broken the $100 billion in quarterly revenues mark when it opens the books Wednesday on its fiscal Q1. That’s a record for AAPL, of course, and may have been assisted by holiday sales of its new iPhone 12. But it’s one in a series of fresh… Source link
Read More »Google revives Australia news platform launch amid content payment fight
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Google is reviving plans to launch its own news website in Australia within weeks, according to a local media outlet contracted to provide articles for the venture, as the search giant fights world-first proposed laws on content payments. FILE PHOTO: A 3D printed Google logo is placed on broken glass in front of displayed Australian flag in this illustration taken, January 22, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration The launch of the News Showcase product as early as next… Source link
Read More »Google revives Australia news platform launch amid content payment fight
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Google is reviving plans to launch its own news website in Australia within weeks, according to a local media outlet contracted to provide articles for the venture, as the search giant fights world-first proposed laws on content payments. The launch of the News Showcase product as early as next month is Google’s latest tactic in a high-profile campaign against the Australian government’s planned legislation to make the company pay local news providers for content that… Source link
Read More »Same Content in Different Formats is Not Duplicate
Google’s John Mueller says identical content published in different formats, such as a video and a blog post, is not considered duplicate content. Site owners can safely repurpose a video as an article, for example, without concern about Google seeing the two pieces of content as the same. It’s even possible that duplicate content isn’t as great of a issue as site owners and SEOs make it out to be, Mueller explains. This topic came up during the Google Search Central office hours stream… Source link
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