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Tuesday, 4 May 2021

Search Engine Roundtable

Daily Search Forum Recap: May 4, 2021
Google Search Console Stops Reporting On Scroll To Text
Google AdSense Pauses Related Search Experiments
May 2021 Google Webmaster Report
Verizon To Sell Yahoo & AOL For $5 Billion After Buying Each For ~$5 Billion
Most SEOs Use DNS Or HTML Verification In Google Search Console
Google: Rel External, Noopener & Noreferrer Do Not Impact Your SEO
Taiwan Burger At Google

Daily Search Forum Recap: May 4, 2021

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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...

Google Search Console Stops Reporting On Scroll To Text

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Google has stopped displaying the scroll-to-text data in the reporting within Google Search Console's performance report. It started showing this August 2020 but now Google is no longer showing this information in Search Console.

Google AdSense Pauses Related Search Experiments

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Google announced that is is temporarily pausing the ability to create custom search style experiments for your related search styles in your Google AdSense account. Google said it hopes to bring this feature back by early July 2021.

May 2021 Google Webmaster Report

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Last month in the Google webmaster, SEO and search world was pretty busy to say the least. We had a few unconfirmed Google updates but on top of that we had the product reviews update rollout and the delay of the product experience update.

Verizon To Sell Yahoo & AOL For $5 Billion After Buying Each For ~$5 Billion

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In 2015 Verizon bought AOL for about $4.4 billion while AOL was under Tim Armstrong's leadership. Then in 2016, Verizon bought Yahoo for about $4.83 billion while Yahoo was under Marissa Mayer's leadership. Now, in 2021, Verizon is selling 90% of both companies to a private equity firm for a total of $5 billion.

Most SEOs Use DNS Or HTML Verification In Google Search Console

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Google offers numerous ways to verify your website with Google Search Console. Jackson Lo asked on Twitter which is your preferred method and without surprise, most SEOs said that they prefer DNS and HTML tag verification over the others.

Google: Rel External, Noopener & Noreferrer Do Not Impact Your SEO

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Google's John Mueller confirmed that using a rel=external, rel=noopener and/or a rel=noreferrer have no impact on your Google search rankings or SEO. John said on Reddit that there is "no effect" by adding those link attributes to your hyperlinks.

Taiwan Burger At Google

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