Google Mobile-Friendly Algorithm Currently Doesn’t Differentiate Some Desktop Ranking Signals
Having a slow or fast mobile site should not impact your mobile-rankings, assuming your desktop site is fast. Google still uses many desktop signals for mobile ranking, even after April 21st.
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Google May Discontinue Their AJAX Crawlable Guidelines
Does your site use AJAX? Well, Google may stop crawling those pages. More details to come from Google as early as next week.
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What’s The Most Searched Thing On Google? Turns Out It’s “Google”
Webmaster Trends Analyst Gary Illyes said the most searched term on Google is “Google” itself during SMX West session.
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Google: The Mobile-Friendly Ranking Factor Runs In Real-Time & Is On A Page-By-Page Basis
Google tells us that the mobile-friendly algorithm launching in about a month is on a page-by-page basis and run in real-time which eases the concerns of many webmasters.
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Naturally Generated Links? Hey, Google Might Still Hate Them!
Let’s say you have a manual penalty… not a nice way to open a post, I know, but it’s the reality for many site owners. What if Google shows you an example of one of your problematic links, and it’s one that sends you some really great converting traffic? What if, upon conducting a…
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Google Researchers Introduce System To Rank Web Pages On Facts, Not Links
Will Google someday rank web pages based on how accurate they are? A new paper suggests they might.
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Google Researchers Introduce System To Rank Web Pages On Facts, Not Links
Will Google someday rank web pages based on how accurate they are? A new paper suggests they might.
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Google Search Algorithm Adds Mobile-Friendly Factors & App Indexing To Ranking
Google’s mobile ranking algorithm will officially include mobile-friendly usability factors and app indexing. Making sure your site is mobile-friendly is now more important than ever.
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Google Testing A Red Slow Label In The Search Results For Slower Sites
Is your site unusually slow? Google is testing a red slow label in the search results that will warn searchers before they click over to your web site.
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Yes, Google Is Testing Green Star Reviews In The Search Results
Google says expect more experiments with the colors of the stars in the search results over the next few months. The green starts some of you are seeing is indeed a test.
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Google Search Tests “Chat” Button In Local Business Box
Google is testing showing a live chat button in the local search box within the web search results for some businesses.
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Google’s New Hacked Classifier Misclassifies Some Web Sites As Hacked
Many web sites this morning noticed Google labeled their sites as being hacked and dangerous in the search results. The issue was not with their web sites but rather the Google hacked sites classifier.
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Google: Try To Avoid Link Building Because It Can Do More Harm Than Good
Google’s webmaster trends analyst, John Mueller, recommends you do not focus on link building and if you do, it may lead to more harm for your web site than anything good.
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Google’s Search Impact Report Goes Live For Select Few Webmasters
Google releases the alpha version of their new search queries report in Google Webmaster Tools to a small number of Webmasters for feedback and testing. We have screen shots of the new tool.
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Google Says There’s No Whitelist To Save You From Panda Or Penguin
Google’s John Mueller said there is no whitelist for the Penguin and Panda algorithms, like there is for the SafeSearch algorithm.
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Google Confirms Making “Tweaks” To The Search Results But Says No “Update” To Announce
Google says that last update the SEO community noticed was not related to the Penguin or Panda algorithms.
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Google App Indexing Statistics & Errors Being Emailed To Webmasters
New Google Webmaster Tools email notifications drive app deep linking awareness in terms of errors and impression and click statistics.
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Google Answers Now Showing Blue Icons Linking To Publisher Sites Or More Google Answers
Google Answers now shows action links directing to publishers sites. This was done previous for easter eggs and Google’s own content but now it works for third-party publishers.
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Google Expands Webmaster Documentation Around Reconsideration Requests
Google clarifies and expands on their reconsideration request documentation for those webmasters who have been hit by a Google manual action.
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Google Now Supports Crawling & Indexing Locale-Adaptive Web Pages
Google adds support for web pages that dynamically change their content based on IP origin or language settings.
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