Category: Search Engine Roundtable

In November 2015, Google launched their App Install Interstitial Penalty which targeted a very specific and niche interstitial add. It was/is easy to get around technically…

Another tidbit that came out of Google Paul Haahr’s SMX West talk was an experiment Google ran before he even joined the company 14 years ago. He said they ran this long term experiment from 2001 or so through 2005 where they would swap positions 2 a…

At SMX West last week, Google’s Paul Haahr, a top engineer involved in core ranking, had a keynote Q&A with Danny Sullivan. He said many interesting things including that Google doesn’t fully quiet understand RankBrain…

Again, at SMX West last week, Paul Haahr from Google said that when Google launched their knowledge graph in 2012, they decided to put entities at the forefront of their query analysis…

John Mueller of Google posted a detailed update on how Google currently handles JavaScript sites (including AJAX) and Progressive Web Apps in their index, crawling…

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…