Google on how it ranks search results and prevents obvious spam

Don’t focus on one or two specific signals, make your site overall better says Google. Google released a new audio episode in which John Mueller, Gary Illyes, Martin Splitt, and Duy Nguyen. A member of the Google search quality team,... The post Google on how it ranks search results and prevents obvious spam appeared first on Soft Trending.
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