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 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 […]
Google Dance 2016: Amazing Event for Webmasters
After a many years long hiatus, Google has rocked it out once again with a brand new Google Dance, hosted at the Googleplex for webmasters attending the SMX West conference. Googlers, including Gary Illyes and Nathan Johns who were the official event hosts, welcoming everyone as they arrived, handing out the latest edition of the […]
AMP Pages Do Use Site’s Crawl Budget
If you think a lot about Googlebot crawl budget, when you implemented AMP pages, the use of AMP pages has probably crossed your mind. After all, many think of AMP as a Google initiative and it is Googlebot that crawls it for Google. But what about looking at the use of Googlebot from the site […]
A/B Testing Support on the AMP Roadmap
AMP is one of the projects that Google has been pushing fairly hard recently. But there are some limitations to AMP. Despite its extremely load speed capabilities, there are still some thing that webmasters can’t do well while utilizing AMP. And one of those things is A/B testing. At SMX West on Tuesday, Dave Besbris, […]
People Submitting Good Spam Reports Get Higher Priority With Future Ones
Juan Felipe Rincon, Webmaster Outreach at Google, talked about spam reports and manual actions at SMX West. And one thing he revealed is about how Google prioritizes received spam reports. When you submit a spam report, you can do it within your Search Console account or without one. If you do it within Search Console, […]
Google Working on Conversational Shopping in Search
With the rise in mobile search queries, conversational search has become a huge part of how users are searching Google, particularly with the way voice search queries tend to be formatted when compared to desktop or type-in queries. During yesterday’s keynote as SMX West, Behshad Behzadi, Director of Search from Google in Zurich revealed that […]
Google Processes 35K Spam Reports Monthly, 65% With Action Taken
At SMX West yesterday, Juan Felipe Rincon, Webmaster Outreach at Google talked about manual actions taken on websites for a variety of reasons, covering everything from spam to hacked sites with content placed without the webmaster’s permission. But he did have some interesting new stats to share. Every month, Google receives 35,000 spam reports. These […]
Websites Can Serve AMP Pages on Subdomain or Different Domain
If you are implementing AMP on your news or blog pages, you have probably implemented it with a www.example.com/directory/amp/ method, where all AMP pages are within a subdirectory. The official WordPress AMP plugin uses this method, so it is fairly common. But what isn’t common is that websites can choose to serve their AMP pages […]