Ever since Google first announced their Mobile First indexing change, which has the potential to dramatically shake up the search results when it goes live, many SEOs have been speculating about just when it might go live or expand beyond the limited testing. The Mobile First change would see Google index and rank sites based […]
Archives for February 16, 2017
Google Not Planning Big Penguin Algo Changes in the Short Term
Gary Illyes from Google was speaking at the Friends of Search conference today and he made some comments about algo changes, including Penguin and possibly Panda. We have seen plenty of algo changes recently, among the many changes Google makes on a daily and weekly basis. But he said today that they are not planning […]
Google’s New Top Entity Carousels Not Ranked by Search Algo
Many searches have been triggering new brand / entity carousels in the search results recently. They are similar to the types of carousels you see for things like “2016 movies”, but they are for “best” or “top” searches, such as best software or best tools. Here is what it looks like: So of course the […]