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Back in December we reported that Google updated their link schemes guidelines to disallow "requiring a link as part of a Terms of Service, contract, or similar arrangement" to link to you with a do-follow. The topic came back up when SEO personality Rand Fishkin said he thinks all websites should put a clause in their TOS requiring do-follow links when being quoted. Weiter...

We knew this was coming and at the AMP Conference in Tokyo, Google announced support for publishers to use their own URLs when serving AMP pages in Google search. This is powered through signed exchanges and supported with more modern browsers. Weiter...

Google said yesterday they are aware of an indexing bug impacting a limited number of publishers and they are working to fix it. It seems like the fix has been rolling out, although Google has yet to confirm this issue has been resolved yet. Weiter...

Google has confirmed it's aware of indexing issues affecting content in Google News.The post Google is Experiencing Indexing Issues With Content in Google News by @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal. Weiter...

Google's John Mueller said on stage at BrightonSEO last Friday that sometimes when Google says "I don't know" they actually do know but they don't know the proper PR way to answer the question yet. Weiter...

The Google de-indexing bug, which took about 6 days to resolve and is supposedly resolved as of last Thursday is now causing issues within Google Search Console. The coverage and enhancement reports, as well as the URL Inspection tool are all impacted according to Google. Weiter...

There are many SEOs complaining that the cache date shown by Google is very outdated. Heck the date shown for this site is April 2nd, which is a 10 days ago. But Google's John Mueller is telling SEO's not to worry about it. Weiter...

Just not long ago, we quoted Martin Splitt of Google saying he knows when Google will release an updated and more modern version of GoogleBot so it can render JavaScript and the modern web better but he won't say when. Now the folks at DeepCrawl caught Google testing Google running a more modern version of GoogleBot running versions of Chrome 69 or higher. Weiter...

In February, Google announced that they would be consolidating the data in the performance report to the canonical. Meaning the AMP, mobile, etc will all be counted towards the main URL's data in the performance report. This was live in two different views but now the old view is gone. Weiter...

Martin Splitt from Google posted yet another wonderful technical SEO video on making Vue.js, web apps built in Vue, search engine friendly. It goes through making the titles, descriptions and URLs more discoverable by Googlebot when built in Vue. Weiter...