Gints

SEO expert with 15+ years of experience. Thrives in most complex SEO strategies and concepts. With a passion for guitar, metalcore and trailrunning.

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@gofishchris Using this for many years now. GReat extension! However, nowedays, it's pretty common that Google does the rendering within 3 days or so after cawling if needed. End of the day, the key is how the DOM is rendered unless JS/CSS files are blocked.

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@TheJackForge I think LinkedIn with or without this can be great for headhunters if your account is in solid state. Recent years getting some solid job opportunities from head hunters without this specific badge. But I would expect an extra one or two solid offer if using it.

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@darth_na @inkovic @gaganghotra_ Agree. That's my thoughts as well

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@libstocktrader @lilyraynyc That was true for many years ago. It's pretty quick for some time now.

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@lilyraynyc That's like an old days with 72hr delay.

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@DavidGQuaid It's more about how it's represented by 3rd party tools. I don't deny it's existence, but it works much differently now. 3rd party tools too much focuses on quantity and DR fictional numbers without actual quality and relevance of each link.

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I would assume it's just for users, it's sometimes common that people search login pages. As silly as it sounds. As you have a lot of internal links on every page, Google just index it, probably just sometimes use for sitelinks. It's silly Google's issue that I have seen for at least 4+ years now. It can happen with other pages that has a lot of internal links and blocked by robots.txt which is not good method to use in these cases.

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@lilyraynyc @SavannaLGray @rustybrick Yeah, this is on mobile search for some weeks for me now. But only on mobile.

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@jonoalderson There are many new SEOs who read old best practices and think that they have found the holy grail. It's not just about old practitioners.

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@simo_sempr @rustybrick @methode They do not crawl it, they just index it. Login page is almost always indexed if blocked by Robots.txt. I would assume, login page with redirect parameter which generates 1000s of versions?

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@karbofoni @lilyraynyc Exactly my thoughts, user signals are important and it seems like that are impacting rankings globally.

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@lilyraynyc Additionally, if user signals are important, India is one of the largest countries and user signals could start impacting results globally as well.

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@lilyraynyc Just a thought, wouldn't it be related that user diversity is common across the globe where user signals from location impacts rankings? Every country has different people who still search and is part of the overall user signals pools and may prefer their home country results.

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@jonoalderson IMHO it's partially true, there is room for common issues, where prioritising must be dependant on situation. Sometime multiple issues can be combined per project based. Focus on solution instead listing 100 issues is the best audit.

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@gaganghotra_ These are some good points! This is one of the reason why I always try to do some qualitative SERP analysis if allocated time allows. You always can squeez out from SERP analysis something that no tools will tell you.

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@thatkatieberry Thank you! This actually triggered some thoughts and started looking into this. Found Chrome extenstion that does it automatically. All my clients doesn't have ads, so somehow haven't thought about this much. Thanks!

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@BrockbankJames @searchliaison Great questions! End of the day, Google does reward some originality, if you are the same as 100 other similar pages in SERPs, the only way how you can outrank them, be more popular with links, traffic, mentions etc. Answering your suggested questions, site owners can get there!

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I’ve been thinking about how this comment from @searchliaison could be interpreted in a way that gets site owners thinking about why their sites got hit by the HCU…

"Everyone should focus on doing whatever they think is best for their readers."