Tom Greenaway from Google spoke at Google I/O yesterday about how Google handles JavaScript pages, and he mentioned something pretty significant – Googlebot treats indexing and ranking of JavaScript ...
It has been a year since we last saw Google’s Search Quality Rater Guidelines updated, but they released a brand new version over the weekend. Here is what has changed, with commentary about why it is ...
When Google began adding dates to the snippets in their search results, it became obvious that for some types of searches, fresher dates could help click throughs. But for a lot of results, Google ...
A year after the last Quality Rater’s Guidelines were released by Google, we have a brand new version. And it has some pretty interesting changes – Google is explicitly declaring fake news sites as ...
Many SEOs have debated over the years about whether they should ever use all CAPS, or even any capital letters, in a URL. While capital usage in URLs has fallen out of favor in recent years, some ...
There is a brand new version of the Google Quality Rater Guidelines, and here are all the changes Google has made to the guidelines and why these changes are important. The new version is dated May 16 ...
At Google Dance Singapore, Gary Illyes from Google revealed a new feature that is coming to the Google search results. The new feature would see specific content from a webpage, including FAQ, Q&A and ...
Google has made some new substantial changes to their “How Google Search Works” search documents for website owners. And as always when Google makes changes to important documents with impact on SEO, ...
Google has once again very quietly updated their Google Quality Rater Guidelines with a brand new version. This update comes as the third update this year so far (following ones in March and May), ...
If you hate when videos auto play, then you really won’t like this new feature in the Google search results. Google is now autoplaying video when you do a search query that brings up a video in the ...
Google is stepping up their local pack ads in a big way. Google is testing new 4-pack local ads, showcases up to 4 “nearby businesses” for local related mobile search queries. This is pretty ...
If you have a large international site that has many hreflang annotations on each page, you might want to consider moving those annotations to a sitemap instead. The question came up on Twitter about ...