There are some major search results fluctuations happening in Google right now. Mozcast is showing high volatility in the results, something that Dr. Pete Meyers from Moz is confirming. Seeing some serious stormy weather on Google yesterday. @SERPmetrics and Algoroo also showing very high flux (cc @dejanseo). — Dr. Pete Meyers (@dr_pete) February 5, 2015 […]
Google Once Again Has Access to Twitter Firehose for Indexing Tweets
Google once again has access to the Twitter firehose, according to a report from Bloomberg. This access would enable Google to index the hundreds of millions of daily tweets more readily than they have for the last few years. Google and Twitter previously had an agreement where Google had access to twitters firehose of tweets, […]
7 Reasons Google Hates Your Site
As a business, nothing can be more frustrating than blending in. You want to set your brand, products, and services apart from the competition and make a statement. However, if you don’t listen to what Google wants and how they want it done, you’ll probably end up in a sea of internet anonymity. Learning how […]
New Google Mortgage Calculator Knowledge Graph, Testing With & Without Ads
If you play in the mortgage space, or even an online calculator space, you will probably be displayed to learn that Google is now including mortgage calculator as a knowledge graph. They also seem to be testing running the calculator both with ads and without. Because it’s a very competitive space, you just never not […]
Google Continuing to Send More Warnings about Non-Mobile-Friendly Websites to Webmasters
If you escaped the initial warning letters from Google alerting webmasters that their sites were not mobile friendly, don’t breathe too easily. Google is continuing to send out new emails letting webmasters know that these issues can negatively impact their visibility and mobile search results – and there is evidence that some of those who […]
Google Chrome Redirecting Some UK Users to Google.com Instead of Google.co.uk
Some users in the UK are being switch to Google.com instead of using the default Google.co.uk when searching in Google Chrome. It’s unclear why it is just Google Chrome users that are being affected. The redirects are happening even when Google.co.uk is set as the default search engine, and when users are either logged in […]
New Google Mobile Algo: Google Begins Reducing Visibility for Non-Mobile Friendly Sites That Received Warnings
Earlier this month, Google began sending warnings to some webmasters that their sites were not mobile friendly. Not all webmasters received one of these notices, so there’s little bit uncertainty about what criteria was needed in order to prompt one of these warnings. However, now we know that Google is taking action against those sites […]
Rethinking Outbound Linking
For search engines, links have at least two functions. Links are a signal of relevance and links are a signal of authority (which includes a lack of authority, too!). Outlinks (links that point to a page on another site) can indicate what a web page is about. If a web page links to sites about […]
Google Displaying Knowledge Graphs for Highly Competitive – and Spammed – Search Queries
Google has begun showing knowledge graphs for some highly competitive – and highly spammed – search queries, and queries that probably will get the competition quite upset with its new appearance. And the owner of the site in the search query gets a nice box around their listing with a stand out link with their […]
First Look at How Google Chrome Plans to Alert Users to Non-HTTPS Websites
After much speculation that Google Chrome would be alerting users to any website that doesn’t employ HTTPS, we finally know how Google plans to flag unsecured websites in Google Chrome, the different settings it uses and best of all, anyone can test it out. Ilya Grigorik posted what he calls his “New favorite Chrome Canary […]