New, unconfirmed Google ranking update shakes the SEO world
The webmaster and SEO community, along with the automated Google tracking tools, all show strong signs that there was a Google algorithm ranking update.
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AMP — Accelerated Mobile Pages — rolling out to 1 billion more people in Asia
Baidu, Sogou and Yahoo Japan adopting the mobile framework.
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How we hijacked Google’s SEO guide search rankings
Contributor Dan Sharp shares an experiment in which his company was able to hijack rankings — from Google itself. See what they learned in the process.
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Google ‘related picks’ now showing under some top stories carousels
Google looks to show you more AMP top stories by adding a query expansion feature in the mobile search results.
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How to monitor Google Knowledge Graph changes and performance
Detailed and accurate Knowledge Graph results are sought after by brands, businesses and individuals alike, but few have a way to actively monitor their listings. Columnist Tony Edward shares his method for doing so.
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Google makes it easier to search for programming languages answers
Google can now handle queries containing sequences of 2–3 special characters.
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Do you know what a mobile crawl of your site looks like?
Columnist Eric Enge discusses the implications of Google’s impending “mobile-first” index, using a case study to illustrate some of the challenges that webmasters and Google alike will face in implementing this change.
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After rare Google confirmation of on-site penalty, Natural News is back in Google’s index
HealthNews.com confirms being reincluded in the Google index after being deindexed last week.
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Google recommendations on how to handle day-long site closures for search rankings
Need to turn off your website for a period of time, but worry your Google rankings will drop? Here are some tips from Google’s John Mueller on how to handle it.
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Google Assistant to roll out across newer smartphones
The virtual assistant capability will soon be available on smartphones running Android 6.0 and 7.0.
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SearchCap: Google penalty, the KKK & Gboard
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
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Natural News was not banned from Google over fake news
A Google webmaster violation is the reason this web site was penalized by Google, not because the site is controversial.
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Four U.S. Presidents in the KKK? Google’s latest problem with featured answers
Technically called a “featured snippet,” Google lists four U.S. presidents as Klan members, even though there’s no conclusive evidence any were.
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Google to sunset Google Site Search product, recommends ad-supported Custom Search Engine
Google is telling their Site Search customers they have to find a new internal search engine service.
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Google says no algorithm changes in new deal to demote pirated content in UK search results
Google and Microsoft Bing agree to reduce pirated content from their search results in an agreement named the Voluntary Code of Practice.
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Google brings back emojis in the search results snippets for relevant queries
Google has brought back displaying emojis in the search results when the query thinks it is relevant.
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Google temporarily disables ‘not mobile-friendly’ label in search results due to bug
A bug has forced Google to remove the mobile friendly label from the search results. Google is fixing the issue and will restore the label after the problem is resolved.
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Google rolls out 2013 Image Search design to more countries, webmasters complain of traffic loss
Did you notice a steep decline in your traffic from Google Image Search? You are not alone, it was due to a design change in some localized versions of the search engine.
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Can we machine-learn Google’s machine-learning algorithm?
As Google becomes increasingly sophisticated in its methods for scoring and ranking web pages, it’s more difficult for marketers to keep up with SEO best practices. Columnist Jayson DeMers explores what can be done to keep up in a world where machine l…
Google’s latest search feature serves up fun facts about animals, plants, fruits & vegetables
Adding the words “fun facts” to queries for animals, plants, fruits or vegetables will surface list of facts atop search results.
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