Category: Search Engine Roundtable

In September 2013, Google announced Hummingbird the new revised engine that powers Google’s search algorithm. It made search faster and more efficient – but it isn’t a spam algorithm. Spam algorithms may plug into the overall algorithm…

In a mobile-first index, Google has warned us that our primary content should be on the mobile version of our site, if we still want to retain our rankings when Google flips to the mobile-first index. I go way into detail on this over here…

Over the past few days, a bug has creeped into the Google search results where the date shown in the snippets in the search results is wrong. There are many many threads about this including at Google Webmaster Help, Moz…

Google has quietly posted on their data anomalies page that they have changed how often they update the “Crawl Status” report in the Google Search Console specifically for apps.

They went from updating the data on a daily basis to updating it every 3-…

Back in 2014, Matt Cutts of Google said if they drop links, the search results get bad. Meaning, if they drop looking at links for ranking purposes…

The other day, we reported there was an unknown update to the Index Status report in the Google Search Console. John Mueller then said on Twitter “we fixed the glitch,” and the “update” line in the report went away…

The data anomalies page has announced that the Google Search Console is “performing infrastructure updates” at this time.

Google added that “will prevent data logging in some reports for the next few weeks…