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Google Search Switching to Mobile First Index from Desktop Index

October 13, 2016 at 10:31 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google Search Switching to Mobile First Index from Desktop Index

Gary Illyes at Pubcon announced today that Google is switching to a mobile first index.  This means that Google will be indexing the mobile versions of pages and not the desktop as its primary index. This is a huge change.  Google has always used the desktop version of a page for ranking, even when serving […]

Google Has Completed Rolling Out Recoveries From All Versions of Penguin

October 13, 2016 at 4:40 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google Has Completed Rolling Out Recoveries From All Versions of Penguin

Google has lifted the previous demotions from all versions of Penguin in the search results.  So if you are waiting to see rankings improve from any of the previous iterations of Penguin, those have now gone out in the search results for all impacted sites. In the early morning Pubcon breakfast session with Gary Illyes from […]

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