After years of anecdotal evidence and speculation, Google has finally confirmed what many suspected… that the #10 spot in the search results isn’t actually that bad of a place to be. At SMX West yesterday, Paul Haahr was talking about the Google search results from an engineering perspective, and he dropped some interesting tidbits about […]
Archives for March 4, 2016
Google Engineers Still Working on Real Time Penguin Update
Not much of a surprise, but Gary Illyes from Google confirmed at SMX that Google Engineers are still working on the Google Penguin algo. Ilyes also said he is giving up on giving out dates for Penguin, because he doesn’t want to be wrong when he does give out a date and it isn’t made. […]
Google App Indexing Ranking Boost Won’t Counteract Algo Penalty Issue
If you have a website suffering from any kind of negative ranking signal in the search results, such as something like Panda or Penguin, a manual action or just a regular algorithmic downranking, app indexing isn’t a “get out of jail free card” for those sites hoping to get their app indexed pages ranking when […]