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, […]
Archives for March 2, 2016
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 […]
AMP Content Will Appear in Other Parts of Google Search
At SMX West yesterday, Dave Besbris, Vice President of Engineering, Google talked about the latest news related to Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages. AMP has been pushed by Google over the past few months as an alternative way to serve mobile users by serving extremely fast webpages without a lot of added resources. AMP officially launched […]