Bing has made their search results much more useful for those who searching for information. For forum posts, Bing has now added a line that says when the first post in the forum thread was made. It also includes the number of posts, which Bing has shown in the search results for some time. Here […]
Don’t NoFollow All Links for Outbound Link Manual Action Recovery
If you were on the receiving end of a manual action warning for unnatural outbound links this weekend, if your strategy to fix the problem was to nofollow every link on the site, you may want to rethink that strategy for a number of reasons. This is also something I brought up in my initial […]
Outbound Link Manual Actions Related to Links in Paid Reviews
It seems that my speculation that the unnatural outbound link manual actions sent over the weekend were related to Google’s recent warning to bloggers about using followed links for paid reviews is accurate. Many, if not all, of the targeted sites are blogs and it is becoming apparent that they seem to have compensated reviews […]
Google Featured Snippets Expand to 10 European Countries & Languages
SEO just got a lot more interesting for those in the EU as Google has brought featured snippets to 10 European countries and languages. This means that the featured snippet could be the visual #1 organic result on pages where the search query triggers a featured snippet in the search results. The ten new countries/languages […]
Google Now Blocking Sites With Deceptive Download & Install Buttons
Is your site using fake download buttons or attempts to install fake versions of popular software updates? If so, Google will now completely block searchers from accessing your site via their “red screen of death” that prevents access to the site and also details the issues Google found. Here is how a site will now […]
Unnatural Outbound Link Manual Actions from Google
Many bloggers were hit with “Unnatural Outbound Links” manual actions late Friday night. This manual action is one that doesn’t seem to be sent out very frequently, as link related manual actions tend to target sites that receive the links, not the the sites that are doing the linking. It seems that the vast majority […]
Google Removes In-Depth Articles from Search Results
Google seems to have removed all instances of in-depth articles from the search results. Dr. Pete Meyers confirmed the removal, and Mozcast shows a drop to 0% coverage. I did look at many of the keywords I track that included in-depth results, and none of the search results contained those results. Here is the Mozcast […]
Large Number of EasyRecipe Plugin Users Hit With Manual Action
Do you own a recipe site and received a spammy rich snippet manual action on your site in the past week? If so, it is likely a specific recipe plugin that is at fault for spammily marking up recipe pages. The Google Help Forums have multiple recipe site owners asking for help after receiving this […]
How Google Processes Different Algos to Determine Site’s Ranking
This was an interesting question in today’s hangout, specifically dealing with how Google processed algos to determine ranking. Lets say that I improve quality of my site overall and users do notice that. How often does Google recalculate the overall score for my website? Every week, 2 weeks, monthly or does it take more time […]
RankBrain & It’s Potential Impact on All Parts of Organic Search
In today’s hangout, someone asked an inevitable Google RankBrain question, this time about whether Google’s RankBrain impacts other parts of the organic search, such as news and image results. Is Rankbrain’s query processing used by organic results only, or are any parts shared with other widgets, e.g. images, Shopping/PLAs, etc? While John’s answer isn’t exact […]