While many SEOs have opinions on word count on a page for google to rank that content best, what about the ratio of text to HTML for SEO purposes? Does the algo look for a “best” text to HTML ratio on webpages? This question came up in today’s Webmaster hangout with John Mueller. Here is […]
Archives for April 15, 2016
Google Likely to Announce When Real Time Penguin Launches
It sounds as though SEOs might not have to avidly watch the various Google weather reports for signs of Penguin after all… John Mueller said today that they will announce when the long awaited real time Penguin starts rolling out. First, he didn’t announce a date to go along with these comments, which is hardly […]
Google: 5% of AdWords Ads Being Served with Green “Ads” Tag Globally
It looks like Google is testing their green “Ad” tag to a group far larger than their usual 1% test… in fact, Google is serving 5% of ads with the green “Ad” tag. This is a significant amount of traffic being served with this new tag. Google AdWords DE posted (in German) a response on […]
Implementing Hreflang? Google Recommends Hreflang Sitemaps
Is there one type of hreflang implementation that is more successful than others? Maile Ohye from Google was asked this question during the SEJ Summit on Wednesday. And she had some interesting comments about it, especially for first-time implmenetations. So does one hreflang implementation have greater success? I would say yes. And then there’s like […]
Google Testing Product Listing Ads at Bottom of Search Results
We are used to seeing Google’s Product Listing Ads at the top of the search results. But now it seems Google is testing them in a brand new position – at the bottom of the page, after the last organic results but before the bottom set of AdWords ads. Here is a screenshot of a […]