You may not think of yourself as a publisher, but guess what? You are! Maybe you provide services to consumers or other businesses, or perhaps you manufacture or sell products. I get it, those things are your bread and butter. But in today’s online environment, you can’t sell anything unless you’re also effective at creating […]
Google Mobile Friendly Ranking Signal Affects Non-English Search Results Too
When Google announced its mobile friendliness ranking signal that is going to come into effect on April 21, 2015, was a bit unclear if this was in English only change or if it would be affecting more languages. But it’s been confirmed that this new mobile ranking signal will affect non-English search results too. Google […]
Google Adds Hotel Information to City Knowledge Graphs in Search Results
Google has added a new feature to their knowledge graph when the users are searching for a specific city. It now includes a link to hotels, including brief details about hotels available in the city, which then goes to a second set of search results showing available hotels in that city. The new line of […]
Google Announces Mobile Friendliness Will Be a Ranking Signal Starting April 21st
Google has announced that they are making the mobile friendliness of the website as a ranking factor for those searchers on mobile devices. The change the expected to go into effect on April 21, 2015. This really doesn’t come as much of the surprise as Google has been heavily promoting mobile friendly web design for […]
Do you Design Websites? No Follow Your “Designed By” Footer Links
It is quite common for web designers to include “Designed by XYZ” with a link back to their web design website for any website they design. But while some designers have ceased the practice of including footer links in websites, it seems like sometimes there’s a blind eye turned to any web designers that are […]
Do Exact Match Domains Help or Hurt Google Rankings? John Mueller Weighs In
There’s a lot of back-and-forth between SEOs on whether exact match domains are still worth using or if Google tends to down rank strictly because they can come across as being pretty spammy with “keyword-keyword-keyword” types of domains. This question was raised in the Google Webmaster Help Hangout video this week and John Mueller went […]
Websites with Privacy Policies or Terms of Service Pages Do Not Get a Ranking Boost
There have been some webmasters over the years that feel that having a privacy policy and a terms of service pages on a website gives it a boost in rankings. It comes up periodically on blogs and on webmaster forums with a bit of debate about whether it is just good user experience or if […]
Site Have Keywords Often Associated With Hacking? Check Search Results for “May Be Hacked” Warnings
When Google recently changed their modifiers on how they flag sites that may have been hacked, there definitely seems to be an issue with the specific keywords that are present on a page. And these typically spammed keywords alone, without the presence of any other typical signs of a hacked site, are enough to triggered […]
Google Testing New Colored Lines Between Search Results on Mobile
Google is testing new colored lines separating mobile search results on mobile. Here is how it looks on Chrome with colored lines, and how it looks without. The results seem to be exclusive to those using Chrome for mobile devices. The colors are all in the Google logo colors. After the Google knowledge graph and […]
Google Begins Showing Tweets in Google News & “In the News” in Search Results
Google has begun showing results from Twitter within their “In the news” section on the front page of the regular Google search results. Aaron Bradley was the first to notice the change in posted this screenshot on Google+. Google recently signed a deal with Twitter that would see them have access to their firehose, this […]