Pew Researched released their State of the News Media 2015 report, and one of the things they highlighted was the fact many newspapers have more mobile visits than they do desktop. For 19 of the top 25 newspaper sites and associated apps in overall traffic, mobile traffic exceeded desktop by at least 10%. For five […]
Your New Advantage on Mobile Search
If you haven’t been hiding in a cave for the past few months you’ll know that April 21st marked the beginning of the rollout of a mobile index by Google. Essentially, instead of creating a mobile algorithm to favor mobile sites they decided to create a whole new index of sites that are mobile-friendly to […]
Google Reminding AdSense Users About Mobile Friendly Algo
Google seems to be expanding their reminders to alert webmasters about the new mobile friendly algo that was launched last week. While we have seen reminders within Google Webmaster Tools, they have added a new alert at the top of the Google AdSense login page to alert any publishers about the mobile friendly algo in […]
Rich Snippets Can Cause Sites to Lose “Mobile-Friendly” Tag
It appears that some schema markup appearing in the mobile search results is forcing the “Mobile-friendly” tag from being listed in the search result. Steve Morgan from SEOno was the first to publicize the issue. However, when you check the URL and the page in question, it both appears to be mobile friendly and passes […]
Google Looking for App Developers for App-Indexing Preview Features
If you have an app with app-indexing, Google is looking for some testers, according to John Mueller. It needs to be an Android app and you must have Google’s App-Indexing search features enabled to do so. It does require an NDA to participate, which means you will likely see some pretty interesting things, but nothing […]
Some Datacenters Have Rolled Out Google’s Mobile Algo Update Completely
Everyone has been watching to Google mobile results with eagle eyes to see not just if the mobile changes have rolled out, but what the ranking differences are in the new mobile results. And while we knew it would take about a week or so for the new mobile algo to completely roll out to […]
Google Adds iOS App Information in Google Search Results
Looks like Google Play wasn’t the only mobile OS to see some changes with how apps are presented in the search results. iOS users will also see some changes in the Google Search results too. This change only applies to results directly from Apple’s App Store, not for sites talking about apps, whether they are […]
Google Changes New Mobile Breadcrumbs to Show HTTPS Page Status & Site URL
When Google officially launched the new mobile breadcrumbs, they were running a mix of URLs and site names to show the site name of each result in the mobile search results. At the time, I said I preferred the old style structure they had been testing a few weeks earlier as it retained the example.com […]
What We Know About Google’s Mobile Friendly Algo Roll Out So Far
We are now a day into the Google Mobile Friendly Algo, and most people are reporting that there just isn’t a lot to see, at least not yet. Dr. Pete Meyers from Moz, who tracks all noteworthy changes in the search results for Mozcast reports that everything seems average without noticeable shifts. Day 1 Mobile […]
Google Does Not Give Extra Mobile Friendly Boost for Chrome over Safari
Brett Tabke reported today with a couple tidbits [edited: the thread was removed, but it is back and located here; edited again: thread is now here] from Pubcon that were being tossed around at the conference about Google’s new mobile friendly algorithm that launched today, although unfortunately they weren’t attributed to anyone in particular to […]