Google’s digital marketing course offers bad SEO advice
That uproar you hear? It’s SEOs calling out Google today.
Google’s new Digital Marketing & E-commerce certification course, which was announced May 2, includes cringe-worthy SEO advice so shockingly bad that one of Google’s search advocates – Danny Sullivan – is disavowing it.
What happened. It all started with a tweet from international SEO consultant Gianluca Fiorelli. In it, he shared this screenshot of a slide discussing how to avoid keyword stuffing:
This is Google’s official advice from the course:
- Write more than 300 words on your webpage.
- Your webpage is more likely to be ranked higher in search engine