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Penguin Real Time Update Delayed Until New Year

December 3, 2015 at 10:41 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Penguin Real Time Update Delayed Until New Year

If you have been waiting for Penguin to be updated, you will have to wait a little bit longer.  Google has delayed the Penguin update until the new year. Many SEOs have been wondering when Penguin would be updating, especially since there hasn’t been a Penguin update since October 2014, and it was believed that […]

Google Testing 4 Top AdWords Ads Above Search Results

December 3, 2015 at 4:31 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google Testing 4 Top AdWords Ads Above Search Results

Google is now testing four AdWords ads above the organic search results.  I started getting reports recently about Google showing 4 ads earlier this week, and was able to trigger it. Here is an example for a search I did: Here is another example: I was only able to trigger four ads above the organic […]

Using Rel Canonical on All Pages for Duplicate Content Protection

December 3, 2015 at 4:20 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Using Rel Canonical on All Pages for Duplicate Content Protection

In this week’s Google Webmaster Hangout, a question was raised about using rel canonical across an entire site, with each page using the rel canonical to point to itself, in order to prevent the possibility of duplicate content being indexed. The question asked was “Is it still okay to put rel canonical on every single […]

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