Archives for May 31, 2016

AJAX is still pretty popular for websites, and at Google Dance Tokyo, Gary Illyes and the other Googlers were asked about whether AJAX content was valued less by Google when compared to straight static HTML content, or if Googlebot still has trouble with AJAX – something that many webmaster dealt with years ago. But does Googlebot […]

At Google Dance Tokyo, Gary Illyes was asked about scraper sites during the Q&A.  He was specifically asked whether a site owner should be concerned about their site being scraped and republished, and all their internal links in the site were turned into external links from the scraper site pointing to the original site. You […]

At last week’s Google Dance Tokyo, during the Q&A, Gary Illyes was asked about Google rewriting title tags, and if Google would ever allow SEOs the ability to prevent Google from rewriting them.  And Illyes had some interesting responses on both of those. We will never quit rewriting titles. We’ve seen so many sites whose […]

Google is adding the site name to the end of some search queries in the search results, truncated the title in order to display a brand or site name at the end. Here is an example of a search which included “thesempost” in the search query. But what is pretty significant is Google is that […]