Google: No New Machine Learning Algorithms Coming To Search Soon
Sorry for covering so many things Gary Illyes of Google said at SMX Advanced…
Google: We Can’t Release Featured Snippets Analytics Due To Internal Politics
Last month I reported that it looks like Google won’t release a feature in Google Search Console’s Search Analytics tool for featured snippet reporting. Well, it looks like I was right…
Google: We Are Rewriting Our Page Speed Algorithm For Mobile
One of the more confusing things around the mobile first index is will page speed be a factor or not when it launches. Google has said no, it won’t be and then they said yes it will be.
It seems like Google is reworking how their measure page speed…..
Google: We May Smear Desktop Signals Into Mobile First Index
Google’s Gary Illyes also said yesterday during the SMX mobile-first panel that while this whole mobile-first index is up in the air, they may decide to “smear” some desktop signals into the mobile-first index…
Officially Live: Google My Business Launches Website Builder
Earlier this year, Google was beta testing a website builder for Google My Business customers. Well…
Google’s Gary Illyes: Hit By Fred? Read Our Quality Guidelines To Recover.
It has been some time since we covered the Google Fred algorithm update, which Google eventually confirmed. Again, we believe Fred targeted low value content around the dates of March 7th/8th. Our poll shows a significant number of SEOs were hit but…
Google: Mobile-First Index Many Quarters Away, Sometime In 2018
We know the Google mobile-first index isn’t launching any time soon and there were rumors it won’t go out in 2017 because hitting quality neutral has been a harder thing to achieve than they once thought…
Google Animated Logo For ICC Champions Trophy 2017
You can now play cricket on the Google home page in the United States. It is for the ICC Champions trophy and it is pretty fun. Truth is, I never played cricket and I have no clue what to do outside of just swing the bat, but it is fun nevertheless…..
Google’s Two Pronged Approach To Search Spam: Ignore vs Penalize
We’ve known for some time now that Google sometimes selects to ignore spam and sometimes selects to penalize the spam (i.e. devalues vs demotes). The topic came up again when we covered how Gary from Google talked about how they ignore Forbe’s link sp…
Gboard For Android Update: Draw Emojis, Phrase Suggestions & More Google Results
Google announced new updates for Gboard for Android. You can now draw on the screen and Google will find matching emojis. Google is also better at helping you type fast with phrase suggestions to predict what you plan to type next…
Gary Illyes: Don’t Hug Me Or Google Will Manually Review Your Site
Here is a PSA for those who will be seeing Gary Illyes at SMX Advanced today or at an upcoming event. Do not hug him…
Google: Our Quality Algorithms Don’t Use Machine Learning In A Targeted Way
John Mueller from Google answered a question about if Google’s search quality algorithms, such as Panda, Penguin and others…
Bing Image Search Too Slow To Drop Removed Images?
Most image search engines, including Google, are very slow to pick up on new images but removing images that go 404, page not found…
Test: Google Hotel Price Slider With Hotel Price Graph
Google doesn’t stop doing these local, espesially hotel specific tests. This one shows the price slide filter but with a graph overlay of the prices of the hotels on the graph…
Bing Visual Search
Earlier this month, Bing announced a new feature within image search to do visual searches based on selecting portions of an image that comes up in your image search results…
Google Explains What Near Duplicate Content Is
Google’s Gary Illyes explained what he meant is the term “near duplicate content.” Gary posted it on Twitter saying near duplicate content can be thought of as “a piece of content that was slightly changed…
Google: Most CMSs Have XML Sitemap Implementations & 3rd Party Tools Unnecessary
In the early days of when Google first introduced XML Sitemaps, Google also a collection of 3rd party sitemap generation solutions. That page now shows a notice that the top that reads “this Google Code project has been deprecated and is no longer main…
Google Local Panel Tests Three Tabs: Overview, Rates & Reviews
Just a couple days ago, Google rolled out the two tab local panel interface where you would be able to toggle between the business’s overview and reviews right in the search results.
Now… Google is testing showing three tabs for hotel listings…
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Google Posts Now Within Google My Business
Maulik Panchal shared a screen shot on Twitter of the Google Posts feature, which enables businesses, organizations and personalities to share information in more real time within the knowledge panel in Google search…
Google Expands Reach Of Featured Snippets In European Regions
The folks at RankRanger posted on Twitter that their Google features tracking tool noticed massive increases in the chances a featured snippet will show up at the top of the Google search results in many European regions…