Category: Search Engine Roundtable

Often you will see dates in the search results snippets when blog or news related content shows up in the organic Google search results…

Gary Illyes from Google said at the State of Search conference that from a Google perspective…

Gary Illyes from Google said at the State of Search conference the other day that you are better off having comments and reactions to your content directly on your site than on third-party sites, like social networks…

Gary Illyes said at the State of Search conference yesterday in his keynote that how featured snippets work, both in user interface and how they rank, is evolving. He said what works for them today…

Gary Illyes from Google was quoted by several SEOs as saying at the State of Search event that Google uses a form of sentiment analysis for search rankings. He said that Google looks at off-site sentiment to find supporting signals about quality of a…

We kind of knew this that when Penguin went real time that it meant Google is done with numbered Penguin releases. Google’ Gary Illyes confirmed the other day at State of Search that the Penguin algorithm is still on autopilot and runs in real time b…

The other day we reported that Google confirmed they are testing the mobile first index in the wild. But we didn’t know the details on how often, when and how to tell when that mobile first index was being tested. In fact…

A couple weeks ago, we reported how Google has done away with the first click free program and introduced something called flexible sampling. If this is new to you…

A Fast Company story on October 3rd profiling Giphy, the popular GIF search engine, ended off with the cofounder and CEO of Giphy, Alex Chung saying “Yeah, we own happy birthday now [on Google]…

Matt Cutts, when at Google, provided these short videos answering one of questions around SEO topics. When Matt left, Google pretty much stopped doing them. Well…