Category: Search Engine Roundtable

Google has updated the quality raters guidelines PDF on March 28, 2016. The full version of the quality raters guidelines was first introduced in November 2015 and now keeps it live and updated for all to see…

Google Search Console seems to have a gap in data, literally a gap. If you go to the Google Search Analytics report, you will see that the 29th of March is missing data…

Yesterday, so this doesn’t seem like an April Fools prank, Google posted in their features updates page for Google My Business that they’ve updated their help document on local rankings.

Google’s Paul Haahr said on Twitter that he thinks the Google Quality Raters use their mobile devices primarily for rating the quality of the search results and Google test results…

I am not sure if you remember but at SMX West, we covered tons of tidbits coming out of a talk Google’s Paul Haahr gave named How Google Works.

Well…

Gerk Mulder shared an interesting screen shot on Twitter of Google indexing, ranking and displaying in the search results snippet a globe unicode URL. It looks like this…

Google’s Elena L. said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that the new news carousel that is powered by AMP content that went live on February 23rd is only live in 12 countries. Google will be expanding them to more countries but here is the full list …

We know Google uses alternative text, alt tags, in images for helping them understand what is an image is about. Google uses it for ranking images…