Today at SMX Munich, Google Webmaster Trends Analyst Zineb Ait Bahajji was in the hot seat about the new Google mobile ranking changes that are coming next month. And she dropped a bombshell on just how much of an impact this new ranking signal will have on the search results. One of the big questions […]
Archives for March 17, 2015
Google Filling Autocomplete in Google Search With Competitor’s Names
Are you a well-known brand? Well when a searcher types in your brand name into the Google search box, Google Instant will auto suggest your competitor’s names as well. For example, if you search for Macy’s, but don’t quite hit enter right away, Google will auto suggest eight different competitors to Macy’s. It does not […]
What SEOs Need to Know About Google’s Doorway Pages Search Ranking Adjustment
Google has announced that they will soon be launching a ranking adjustment that will negatively impact doorway pages on websites, as well as potentially impacting an entire site if Google feels there are enough spam doorway pages on a site to warrant it. And this ranking change is coming into effect soon. Doorway pages have […]
Google to Close the Old Google Webmaster Tools API on April 20, 2015
Just a reminder if you are still using the old Google Webmaster Tools API that Google will be turning it off on April 20, 2015 The reason that the old API will be ending is due to ClientLogin shutdown happening the same day – all applications using older APIs with it will all stop working […]