Many SEOs have been curious about just what will change when it comes to Penguin. In yesterday’s Hangout with Eric Enge and Mark Traphagen, Illyes was asked about Penguin and what would be different about Penguin from an SEO perspective. He did disclaimer his comments that they haven’t talked about how to communicate the changes […]
Archives for February 12, 2016
Why You Need to Be Careful When Hiring an SEO, According to Google
In yesterday’s Hangout with Eric Enge and Mark Traphagen, Gary Illyes from Google commented that when he looked at Penguin affected sites, he saw that they were actually the result of bad SEOs. He then talked about how site owners don’t need to hire an SEO but that if they do, they need to be […]
Google Has No Plans for a “SEO Certified Professional Program”
Many people have wanted to see some kind of certified SEO program on the search side of things, similar to the AdWords certification that requires AdWords experts to pass an exam on the pay per click platform. During yesterday’s Hangout with Eric Enge and Mark Traphagen, he was asked if we would ever see a […]
Number of Voice Searches in Google Doubled in Last Year
If you still don’t think voice search is a big deal, here is an interesting stat from Gary Illyes… voice searches have doubled in the past year. In his hangout yesterday with Eric Enge and Mark Traphagen, he was talking about the importance of voice search. While he commented there will be a talk that […]
Google Removes the Link: Operator from Support Pages
It seems as though the very broken link: operator in the Google search results is now missing in action. Doing link: queries now do not return any results. And Google has also removed it from their support page which lists all of Google’s search operators. Here is the Google support page from January 16th which […]