Fahad HFeb 3, 20165 min readWhat’s Next, As Google’s Head Of Search Leaves & Its Machine Learning Chief Takes OAmit Singhal, Google’s departing head of search After 15 years, the head of Google Search — Amit Singhal — has announced he’s leaving...
Fahad HJan 29, 20161 min readWhen You Rank High Organically But Not Locally (Case Study)I always enjoy solving Local SEO puzzles, but there’s one that has baffled me for the last couple of years. I’ve had many other...
Fahad HJan 14, 20162 min readHow To Uncover SEO Content Marketing Ideas With Google Search AnalyticsWhen Google first launched Webmaster Tools (now known as Google Search Console), I was more than skeptical of its value. I had a hard...
Fahad HJan 7, 20165 min readSurviving Google’s New Policy Against Interstitial AdsGoogle has spoken — and an important part of the mobile web will never be the same. At least that’s the theory, and certainly the search...
Fahad HDec 14, 20152 min readIs Google’s Search Market Share Actually Dropping?Last year, I conducted a comprehensive survey to discover the search engine preferences of internet users and learn who truly dominates...
Fahad HNov 30, 20151 min read3 Google Patents You Need To Know About In 2016It’s frustrating, isn’t it? When Google suddenly changes something, and you had no idea it was going to happen. That’s where all the...
Fahad HNov 24, 20151 min readSEO For Featured Snippets Leads To Big GainsNote: This piece with co-authored by Cheryl Jones. The way customers search has changed dramatically, particularly in recent years, with...
Fahad HNov 18, 20151 min readUse Google’s Search Console API & Pivot Tables To Supercharge Your Long-Tail SEOGoogle’s recent changes to their Search Console API have allowed for interesting data analysis via Impressions and Clicks data....
Fahad HNov 18, 20151 min readHow To Prep For The Pending Penguin Update & Ensure You’re Penalty Free In 2016Gary Illyes, Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google, confirmed on Twitter that we’ll be graced with the next Penguin update before the end of...
Fahad HNov 16, 20153 min readCan You Now Trust Google To Crawl Ajax Sites?Web designers and engineers love Ajax for building Single Page Applications (SPA) with popular frameworks like Angular and React. Pure...
Fahad HNov 13, 20151 min readGoogle’s Efforts To Monetize Mobile Pay Off, But Sites See A Hit To Organic VisitsGoogle has made some of the biggest changes we’ve ever seen to the way it serves mobile ads over the past four months, helping to drive...
Fahad HNov 3, 20151 min readLive Blog: Machine Learning Day At GoogleGoogle’s big on machine learning these days, including the recently revealed RankBrain artificial intelligence system that’s helping...
Fahad HOct 27, 20152 min readRankBrain: How Google Is Using Artificial Intelligence To Rank Web PagesRankBrain isn’t replacing the current Google Algorithm (currently nicknamed Hummingbird), but instead RankBrain is one of the “hundreds”...
Fahad HSep 28, 20152 min readGoogle To Let Advertisers Upload And Target Email Lists In AdWords With Customer MatchGoogle is making its move to bring first-party data to search results — and YouTube and Gmail. The new product, called Customer Match,...
Fahad HSep 2, 20155 min readGoogle Declares War On App Install Problem It Helped CreateToday, Google announced a change where publishers who aggressively promote their apps to mobile visitors might face a ranking penalty....
Fahad HJun 29, 20152 min readStudy Claims Google Is Delivering “Degraded” Search Results, Adding Steam To EU AntitrusIn a study sponsored by Yelp – one of the companies listed as a complainant in the EU antitrust case against Google, former FTC advisor...
Fahad HJun 19, 20155 min readFrance Wants Google To Target French Citizens Worldwide & Censor Their Search ResultsThe clock is ticking for Google to comply with a demand by the French privacy regulator CNIL to implement Right To Be Forgotten...
Fahad HJun 12, 20156 min readHow The Myth Of Google Censorship Was Busted By The EU & CanadaFor over a decade, Google has successfully convinced various governments that it is censoring its search results when it actually wasn’t....
Fahad HMay 28, 20152 min readReport: Google Had $12 Billion In Mobile Search Revenue, 75 Percent From iOSYesterday the New York Times writer Farhad Manjoo exposed part of a Goldman Sachs report about Google in which the firm estimated that...
Fahad HMay 27, 20151 min readGoogle: Apple Search Deal Not Yet Up For Renewal, Is “Important” To The BusinessMany expected that by now Apple would either have renewed its search deal with Google or gone with another partner. But Google said today...
