Gary Illyes, Webmaster Trends Analyst from Google, keynoted State of Search on Monday talked about AMP and how Google will be pushing it aggressively in 2016. But he also mentioned something else, that Google is working with both WordPress and Joomla to support AMP as well. WordPress has previously announced their efforts with AMP. But […]
Structured Data Markup Will Be Bigger in 2016
If you are a fan of structured data – and as an SEO, you should be – Google is planning to make structured data even bigger in 2016. We have seen Google add multiple new markups this year, such as the critic review schema, and there are many markup features which are now standard in […]
AMP – Accelerated Mobile Pages Will Be Pushed Aggressively in 2016
2015 saw Google pushing mobile aggressively, and to a slightly lesser extent, HTTPS. At State of Search in Dallas, Gary Illyes from Google revealed what the next big thing for 2016 would be, and it is AMP, also known as Accelerated Mobile Pages. And he said they will be pushing it aggressively in 2016. This […]
Gary Illyes’ Recommendations for Getting Featured Snippets
During Gary Illyes’ keynote at State of Search in Dallas, he talked quite a bit about featured snippets and gave some advice for those who are looking to get into the featured snippets. He said pages should either implicitly or explicitly state the question on the page, then answer the question. While he didn’t go […]
Google May Release Documentation Getting Featured Snippets
While there are plenty of SEO tricks to try and get featured snippets in the Google search results, Gary Illyes said that he is pushing to get oddicial documentation released on how to get featured snippets. It would be nice to see something official from Google on this. They haven’t talked much at all about […]
How Many URLs & Duplicates Google Knows About
During the State of Search keynote yesterday in Dallas, Texas, Gary Illyes shared a pretty incredible stat – Google knows about 120 trillion URLs, and of those URLs, 60% of them are duplicate. Now keep in mind Illyes does not say these are all indexed and ranking – merely that 60% of the URLs Google […]
Structured Data Markup Does Not Influence Featured Snippets… Yet
Many SEOs have been busy reverse engineering featured snippets to increase their odds of getting them. But Gary Illyes from Google debunked one of the common rumors that has been floating around recently. During his State of Search keynote Monday in Dallas, Illyes talked quite a bit about featured snippets and one thing he mentioned […]
Google Wants to Allow Site Owners to Update Knowledge Panels
Good news if you have ever suffered from having incorrect information show up in a Google Knowledge Panel in the search results. Google wants to make it easier for site owners and individuals to update their knowledge panels and edit them for correct information, according to Gary Illyes during his State of Search keynote Monday. […]
Latest Google Search Quality Rater’s Guide: Mobile Rewrite
We have another Google Quality Rater’s Guidelines & Handbook, and this one is mere weeks old – October 2015. And like the last time we covered the Quality Rater’s Handbook, Google has completely written major parts of their guidelines. Last year we saw Google put the emphasis on pages that had a high level of […]
Bing Launches Mobile Friendly & Blocked Resources Testing Tool
While Bing has been showing when sites are mobile friendly, they haven’t had a tool for webmasters wanting to test their sites… until now. They have announced the launch of a brand new mobile friendliness testing tool. Bing is currently checking for the following when determining if the page is mobile friendly or not. Viewport […]