Category: Search Engine Roundtable

Yesterday at SMX West in the How Google Works: A Google Ranking Engineer’s Story session Gary Illyes of Google was asked about the Penguin 4.0 update…

Paul Haahr, one of the senior folks at Google who work on search rankings, said at SMX West yesterday that position 10 gets way more clicks than positions 8 or 9. He explained that no one wants to click to the next page…

If you can’t tell by all the Google AMP articles we’ve written here, AMP is a big deal at Google.

Dave Besbris, Vice President of Engineering at Google said at SMX West this week that “everywhere we use content…

Dr. Pete Meyers from Moz reports that the Mozcast feature graph is indeed correct in showing that featured snippets are now showing up almost 17% more often…

As you know, Google AMP went live last week and the only significant change is that the AMP lightening bolt icon went from green to gray.

But yesterday at SMX West, Dave Besbris, Vice President of Engineering at Google said that the news carousel wil…

I covered this last night at Search Engine Land, but I am asked this often. If you submit a spam report to Google, does Google even listen to it.

Well, yesterday at SMX West, Google’s Juan Felipe Rincon said Google does look at those reports…
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Ryan Schilling noticed Google showing a phone icon and phone number under some of the organic mobile search results. He posted a screen shot of it on Twitter. I was not able to replicate it on any of my devices…

A few weeks ago, I reported about Google investigating a Polish hacker who is stealing webmasters Google traffic by hacking and tricking Google into thinking his domains are the original content…