Google Confirmed The Mobile Interstitial Penalty Did Roll Out
So January 2017 was the big mobile interstitial penalty from Google. On January 11, 2017, Google said it began rolling out but very few sites got hit, the ones that did got hit, got hit hard but the spread was minimal and sites that likely should have …
Google Opportunity: Produce Content In Non English Languages
Another tidbit at SMX Advanced from Gary Illyes of Google, something he said a few months ago is that there is a huge opportunity to rank for keywords in non-English languages. He said there is a lack of content and web pages for non-English languages….
Google: We Will Bring Voice Search Analytics To Webmasters
Despite Google saying they are not giving webmasters feature snippets analytics, Google did say they will give webmasters analytics on voice search queries related to their own content. Google has said this for over a year and even said it again a cou…
Was There A Small Google Algorithms Update This Week?
June 14th, or around that date, there may have been a small algorithm update in Google that webmasters somewhat took notice of…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Updates, Fred Actions, Search Analytics, Mobile Changes & More
This week in search, I covered a potential Google search algorithm update that I doubt Google will confirm as they said they will only confirm really big updates. Google said if you think you were hit by the Fred update…
Google: Status Quo With Google’s HTTPS Ranking Boost
So nothing has changes with the HTTPS ranking boost Google announced back in 2014. It still works the same way…
Google: Buying Links Is Like Throwing Money Out The Window
Gary Illyes from Google said at SMX Advanced on stage that buying links from sites that sell guest blog posts and the like is the same thing as throwing money out of the window…
Google: We Will Communicate About Major Search Algorithm Updates
One of the SEO industry’s gripes with Google is that they rarely confirm search algorithmic updates. We cover most Google updates here and very few of them actually get confirmed…
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…