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 […]
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 […]
How Page Speed as a Google Ranking Factor Works
There is always this push by SEOs to get the highest possible page speed score to get the most benefit from the ranking boost related to speed. But webmasters might be looking at it the wrong way in how Google applies it – or not. The question was how big of a ranking factor page […]
Google Testing “You Recently Search For” Yet Again
Google is once again testing adding a line with “you recently searched for <keyword>” beneath some search results. Here is how it shows in the search results: Jewelry was the keyword used on the search immediately preceding the search that showed this result. Only one result had this added notation. We last spotted it a […]
Common SEO Problems With E-Commerce Site Launches
You just launched your new e-commerce website and things are going great … for a week. Soon website traffic is suddenly down and sales are subsequently are down. What gives? What happened? Here are some of the reasons that the majority of sites have when their site launch or re-launch isn’t ranking as well as […]
Google Search Console Sending Update Alerts for PageSpeed
Are you using the Google PageSpeed module on your site? If you haven’t updated it recently, you will probably receive an alert from Google reminding you to update it. Here is a copy of the letter that Glen Gabe shared. It seems that many were sent because there are a lot of reports from others […]