At last week's SMX East conference, Gary Illyes, a Google webmaster trends analyst, answered questions from moderators – Barry Schwartz and Michelle Robbins – as well as from the audience. Ask Me Anything ". ]
In this post, I will cover this question-and-answer dialogue, although what you will see below is paraphrases rather than exact quotes. I've grouped the questions and used the section headers to help improve flow and readability.
Off-site Signals
Barry: You recently stated that Google was looking at other off-site signals, in addition to the links, and that some of those results seemed to indicate that Google was doing an analysis of feelings.
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