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Many SEOs To Buy Links In 2022 Despite Google’s Webmaster Guidelines

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11 months ago

January 11, 2022

Many SEOs To Buy Links In 2022 Despite Google's Webmaster Guidelines

Tim Soulo from ahrefs posted a Twitter poll asking will you pay money to get links in 2022? Sadly, someone spammed the poll but I recreated it and it clearly shows that many, almost half of SEOs, are planning on buying and paying for links in 2022.

Here is the recreated poll:

Will you pay money to get links in 2022?

(Please be honest)

Original poll via @timsoulo but someone spammed the poll and ruined the results

— Barry Schwartz (@rustybrick) January 6, 2022

With 770 results, if you remove the see results option, you see about 53% say they will not pay for links in 2022 but 47% said they will pay for links in 2022.

This is despite Google having a specific guideline against paid links saying “Buying or selling links that pass PageRank is in violation of Google’s Webmaster Guidelines and can negatively impact a site’s ranking in search results.”

Also, in 2017, Gary Illyes from Google said that buying links is like throwing money out of the window.

Does this surprise you at all?

Forum discussion at Twitter.

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Google Testing Removing The Estimated Number Of Search Results Again

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December 8, 2022

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Google Testing Removing The Estimated Number Of Search Results Again

Seems Google is once again testing removing the estimated number of search results under the search bar. You know, the line that says “About X results in Y seconds” Google is testing removing that again.

We reported something similar in March 2022 and before that in July 2016.

In this case, it seems to be missing when the new topics refinement bar shows up – maybe it is related?

This is what I see without the estimate count but with the new topics bar:

And now with the estimate count but without the new topics bar:

Many noticed this yesterday including Martin MacDonald and Bill Hartzer:

Hey Google: why you removed the page count on site: searches?

Trying to find out how many pages roughly a scraper site has stolen off a client, and this doesnt help… pic.twitter.com/7rYbWNQJyZ

— Martin MacDonald – #BARBADOSSEO 🇧🇧🇪🇸 (@searchmartin) December 7, 2022

Has anyone noticed that Google’s not displaying the number of pages indexed when you use the site:domain .com search operator?

Is this new @rustybrick ? pic.twitter.com/iM4KXgEI9D

— Bill Hartzer (@bhartzer) December 7, 2022

Some even noticed a minimalistic design, by turning off JavaScript:

Hey @rustybrick, have you seen this retro-looking search bar and pagination UI on Google before? pic.twitter.com/l1uxD0x9kK

— Aleks SEO (@AleksAtWork) December 7, 2022

Also not seeing page counts on the SERPs with JS disabled @rustybrick @pedrodias pic.twitter.com/4HgZdm9LgG

— Martin MacDonald – #BARBADOSSEO 🇧🇧🇪🇸 (@searchmartin) December 7, 2022

Google always be testing and sometimes be bugging – I am not sure if this is a test or a bug.

Forum discussion at Twit ter.

Source: www.seroundtable.com