If you still haven’t made your site mobile friendly yet, you might want to get busy on that. Google is increasing the mobile friendly ranking boost associated with pages that are mobile friendly. As a next step in our ongoing efforts to help users find more mobile-friendly content, beginning in May, we’ll start rolling out […]
Archives for March 16, 2016
Google Adds New HTTPS Transparency Report
Google has added a new section to their Transparency Report to cover how much traffic and how many sites are serving their sites via HTTPS and the results are pretty interesting. Today we are launching a new section of our Transparency Report to track the progress of encryption efforts—both at Google and on some of […]
Why Some Google Spam Reports Are Not Acted On
Have you ever filed a Google spam report on a site yet never seen any impact on their search rankings after that, and wondered why? There are a few different reasons why Google may not act on a spam report. Not Enough Information If you are submitting a spam report, include as much information as […]
Google Working on Consolidating WWW, Non-WWW, HTTPS Properties in Search Console
One of the major pain points for webmasters with Google Search Console is the rather clunky way site owners need to verify – and check – www and non-www versions of their websites in Search Console. Many site owners can get along fine with simply verifying a single property in Google Search Console. In fact, […]