While writing my article earlier this week on Panda and Penguin, I noticed that Google is showing an answer box for Panda. But the interesting thing is it is showing two sources. You can see it has its usual answer box text and source. But instead of choosing an image from the source they are […]
How to Make Google Rank Current Year’s Event or Product Higher Than Last Year’s One
We have all seen it happen. We search for an event, such as a conference or a festival, only to discover the top listing is for the previous year’s event. And if you are doing a quick search to see dates just from the search results alone, it can be very easy to confuse the […]
Google’s Doorway Algorithm is Live & Updates Regularly
Yes, Google’s doorway algorithm has gone live. Some webmasters were questioning whether Google had pushed out the doorway algorithm or not because many did not notice much of a change in the Google search results. And there had been no official word from Google that it had gone live, just their announcement that it would. […]
Why SEOs Should Focus on Google’s Other Algo Signals, Not Just Panda & Penguin
If you have ever been hit by a flying Panda or Penguin, it can have a pretty devastating effect. And by far, the most Google algo attention is given to Panda and Penguin, with the only possible exception of the month leading up to the mobile friendly algo launch date in April… although the terror-inspiring […]
Apple Officially Acknowledges Their Applebot Web Crawler
Apple seems to have finally officially acknowledged their “Applebot” webcrawler with a new webpage added to their support site this week. Apple is using this crawler for both Siri and Spotlight Suggestions, among other products. User-agent strings will contain “Applebot” together with additional agent information. For example: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/600.2.5 […]
Don’t Lose Momentum: 12 Rules For Launching a New Website
It’s not uncommon for businesses to roll out a new website every 2-4 years. Web technologies, styles and best practices evolve. If you want to remain relevant and cutting edge, a new look may be just what the doctor ordered. For the most part, re-skinning a website is a simple matter. Just slap a slick new […]
Google’s PageSpeed Service Shutting Down in August
If you have a website that is utilizing Google’s PageSpeed Service, Google has announced they will be closing the service on August 3, 2015. Any webmasters who do not update their DNS accordingly will discover their sites will be down after that date. After 4.5 years of service, the PageSpeed Service team regretfully decided that […]
Google Webmaster Tools Launches Search Analytics Report
The wait is finally over. Google Webmaster Tools has finally launched the long-awaited Search Analytics reporting for webmasters, replacing the less-robust Search Queries report. Google first began alpha testing a new search analytics – originally called Search Impact – earlier this year. It gives webmasters much more search query data than was previously available in […]
Mortgage & Auto Insurance Comparisons in Google Search Results
Google is bringing Google Compare to mortgages and bringing it to additional states for auto insurance queries in the Google search results. Dr. Pete Meyers from Moz actually saw this in action a few weeks. It showed up in one of his Mozcast data crawls, although no one has reported any sightings of this showing […]
Emoji Title Tag Spam Won’t Be Shown in Google Search Results Soon
Emojis in Google search result titles will be disappearing soon according to John Mueller in today’s Google Webmaster Hangout. The question was raised about the new emojis showing up in the titles of Google search results, and even John admitted he liked them when he first saw them, but of course that quickly changed. I […]