This was an interesting question in today’s hangout, specifically dealing with how Google processed algos to determine ranking. Lets say that I improve quality of my site overall and users do notice that. How often does Google recalculate the overall score for my website? Every week, 2 weeks, monthly or does it take more time […]
Archives for April 8, 2016
RankBrain & It’s Potential Impact on All Parts of Organic Search
In today’s hangout, someone asked an inevitable Google RankBrain question, this time about whether Google’s RankBrain impacts other parts of the organic search, such as news and image results. Is Rankbrain’s query processing used by organic results only, or are any parts shared with other widgets, e.g. images, Shopping/PLAs, etc? While John’s answer isn’t exact […]
How Page Speed as a Google Ranking Factor Works
There is always this push by SEOs to get the highest possible page speed score to get the most benefit from the ranking boost related to speed. But webmasters might be looking at it the wrong way in how Google applies it – or not. The question was how big of a ranking factor page […]
Google Testing “You Recently Search For” Yet Again
Google is once again testing adding a line with “you recently searched for <keyword>” beneath some search results. Here is how it shows in the search results: Jewelry was the keyword used on the search immediately preceding the search that showed this result. Only one result had this added notation. We last spotted it a […]