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Google Says Cross Linking Language/Country Versions Won’t Have A Negative Ranking Impact
Google’s John Mueller was asked if there can be some sort of negative impact when it comes to cross linking your language or country versions of your pages. In which John said “I can’t think of any reason why cross-linking your language/country versions of pages would have a negative impact.”
John added on Twitter that not only is there no negative impact, he said there is only positive to gain from it. He said “It just makes everything much easier, for users, and for search engines.”
Also, the question was specific to orphaned product issues derived from the cross linking, and he said nope. He said, “I don’t think you’d run into issues with “orphaned products”.” Adding that “cross-linking language/country versions of pages is always a good idea imo.”
Here are those tweets:
I don’t think you’d run into issues with “orphaned products”, but cross-linking language/country versions of pages is always a good idea imo.
— 🐝 johnmu.xml (personal) 🐝 (@JohnMu) May 12, 2022
I can’t think of any reason why cross-linking your language/country versions of pages would have a negative impact. It just makes everything much easier, for users, and for search engines.
— 🐝 johnmu.xml (personal) 🐝 (@JohnMu) May 12, 2022
I do love how much effort this SEO put into his tweet to catch the attention of John and get a response (not that John doesn’t respond to a heck of a lot of low effort tweets).
Forum discussion at Twitter.
Source: www.seroundtable.com
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Jeff Ferguson On Starting His Own Digital Marketing Agency

In part one, we go through Jeff Ferguson’s long history in search marketing. Here, in part two, we pick up with him starting his own agency. Jeff explained how he was working at this arbitrage company, and they were not profitable for a decade, and then overnight, he helped them become profitable, and they were making a ton of money. But they didn’t do it right, and eventually, they took a major hit. So he was offered a package to leave but picked up doing consulting during that time. He ran his agency for ten years before merging with Amplitude Digital.
He loves agency life and doing his own thing. He is at a point in life where doing his own thing and owning his agency is where he wants to be. He does write a lot of content; he shares a lot of advice on Twitter and Facebook.
You can learn more about Jeff Ferguson at Amplitude Digital and follow him on Twitter @CountXero.
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Forum discussion at YouTube.
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Google Pier 57 Display Wall

Here is one of the many walls at the new Google Pier 57 location. You can see they set up a display wall that houses a Google surfboard, Google letters, Android figurine, and much more.
I spotted this on Instagram.
This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day column, where we find fun and interesting photos related to the search industry and share them with our readers.
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Google Golf Tee T-Shirt

Andy Stewart is a Creative Director at Google and he posted this really cool t-shirt design he made. He calls it the Google Golf Club tee shirt. Maybe there is a golf club at Google that he is a part of.
He posted this on Instagram.
This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day column, where we find fun and interesting photos related to the search industry and share them with our readers.
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