It has been no secret that Google has been pushing hard to see more websites go secure, complete with the HTTPS ranking boost to encourage more sites to do so. Jimmy Wales was recently interviewed and contributed some of his own thoughts on why encryption is so important, and gives insight into why more webmasters […]
Upcoming Penguin Will Be Update, Not Refresh, and Real Time
For those who have been wondering whether the new Penguin would be an update or merely a refresh, we now have our answer. It will be a true Penguin update – meaning with new signals – rather than a refresh, which would mean simply rerunning the last version of Penguin. Gary Illyes from Google confirmed […]
Google Search Analytics Updated Once Again
It appears that the Search Analytics in Google’s Search Console is updating once again. After being stalled after the November 11th data refresh, users can now find data up to and including November 20th. The Search Analytics has been suffering issues lately with not refreshing the data. Already this month it had stalled with data […]
Google Officially Releases Search Quality Rating Guidelines
Google has officially released their Quality Rating Guidelines, the same guidelines I analyzed earlier this week from a leaked copy. This marks the second time that Google has released a version, having released a stripped down version in 2013. But this is the first time they have publicly and officially released the entire document. Something […]
New Book & Play Themed Carousels in Google Knowledge Panels
Google has added some new features to the Google Search results in both the knowledge panel and the associated carousel for books as well as both musicals and plays. This was actually a feature I was hoping for when covering a similar feature for movies. @jenstar try out some books or plays now. 🙂 — […]
SEO is Not Part of Website Development? Really?
After taking a website for a quick pre-launch spin before its designers moved it off the development server a developer said, “SEO is not part of development.” Although I was performing accessibility compliance tests for my client, not SEO, I was stunned. I started building websites in 1995 and SEO was been part of that […]
App-Only Content Now Appearing in Google Search Results
Google has stepped up promoting app content in the search results by now adding the ability to show content that is only available within an app. Google is showing it in the search results even to those users who might not have the app installed. Because we recognize that there’s a lot of great content […]
Google Search Analytics Will Be Fixed By End of Week
After a brief period of updating, Search Analytics in Google Search Console is once again delayed. It began updating again but now it has stalled once again without any updates since November 11, 2015. Zineb Ait Bahajji posted an update on Google+ that the team is aware of the issue and they are working on […]
Third Party Content in Google Now Cards Coming
For those of you who are Google Now fans, Gary Illyes from Google said they are wanting to add third-party cards into Google Now. We do see cards that are considered third party, primarily extracted from emails with the appropriate markup, such as the ones we see for flight details, hotel reservations and package shipping […]
100 Billion Deep Links Indexed; Results Returned in 45% Android Searches
During Gary Illyes’ keynote at this week’s State of Search, he revealed some updated stats about app indexing which should make some webmasters stand up and take notice, especially those who might be sitting on the fence about whether or not to do an app or not. First, Illyes said that Google currently has 100 […]