Since Google announced passage indexing (ranking) many assumed they would look different in the search results. But no, they won’t look any different according to Danny Sullivan of Google. Danny told me on Twitter that passage indexing “doesn’t change the look of results.”
It has been a slow week or so in the search news space because of the holidays but hey – things are never sitting idle in our industry. There has been some speculation that Google did some sort of algorithm update over the Christmas weekend but it seems highly doubtful…
New Years Day is not over yet and John Mueller of Google has been out helping webmasters both in public forums and privately (I think). Here are some of the public responses John made during New Years Eve 2020 and New Years Day 2021.
New Year’s Day is here for some folks and with that the January 1 New Year’s Day Google logo or Doodle is also live on those who access Google.com when it is January 1, 2021 at their location. Google has changed the New Year’s Eve Doodle cuckoo clock 2020 logo to a January 1 New Year’s Day 2021 cuckoo clock.
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…
At SMX Virtual earlier this month, John Mueller of Google graciously accepted to speak at the event and he shared a lot of amazing tips and changes in search in his presentation. But he also shared some outlook ideas looking forward to 2021 in search and SEO.
