
How To Prep For The Pending Penguin Update & Ensure You’re Penalty Free In 2016
Gary Illyes, Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google, confirmed on Twitter that we’ll be graced with the next Penguin update before the end of...

Android 6 “Marshmallow” & SEO Series: Click To Search With Google Mobile
As Google’s crawling technology becomes more sophisticated and prolific with the release of Android Marshmallow, search behavior is...

Can 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...

How A Dip In Overstock’s Organic Rankings Contributed To An 17% Stock Drop
Much to the chagrin of shareholders, Overstock.com stock dropped a whopping 17.24% today. Why? According to the earnings report a major...

Intermediary Liability In Duffy Case Could Turn Google, Facebook Into Content Police
Janice Duffy has been vindicated by the Supreme Court of South Australia in her case against Google. While that’s good for Dr. Duffy, the...

Turning The Tables, Google Argues EU Must Justify More Aggressive Antitrust Stance
As part of its defiant stance against EU antitrust charges, Alphabet (Google) is arguing that there’s no basis for assessing fines...

RankBrain: How Google Is Using Artificial Intelligence To Rank Web Pages
RankBrain isn’t replacing the current Google Algorithm (currently nicknamed Hummingbird), but instead RankBrain is one of the “hundreds”...

[Study] Moz Releases 2015 Search Engine Ranking Factors
Every few years, the folks over at Moz pore over more than 170 attributes and poll 150 of the leading marketing minds on what they think...

Why Google Sent You That Message About Blocking JavaScript & CSS
Did you get an email from Google saying Googlebot can’t access your CSS and JS files? Well, you are not alone. This morning, Google began...

LOL…WHAT?!? SEOs Have A Field Day With Google’s SEO Job Posting
Google is trolling! It’s like SEO inception! How ironic, Google needs an SEO! Those are just some of the themes that emerged in the past...

The Mobilegeddon That Wasn’t. What Happened?
Google’s April 21 mobile-friendly update, generally referred to as “Mobilegeddon” was announced a few months ago. Fear and anxiety spread...

Google Offers Insight Into Its Right-To-Be-Forgotten Review Process
As discussed in my companion article, it has been a year since the “right to be forgotten” (RTBF) was established in Europe by the EU...

A Week After Mobilegeddon: What We Know About Google’s Mobile Friendly Update So Far
A week after Mobilegeddon, what do we know? That it will likely take a few days to finish rolling out, that many haven’t seemed to notice...

Google: Fear Of Mobilegeddon Boosted Mobile-Friendly Sites By 5%
As covered on our sister site, Google announced that since the initial announcement of the mobile friendly update two months ago, 4.7%...

The Death Of The Keyword (As We Know It)
Google is changing the way it thinks about keywords. Search is no longer about the phrase you type into a box; it’s about creating a...

Google Launches Mobile Friendly Labels, Testing Tool & Possible Ranking Boost
Google has made a large mobile announcement today, showing new efforts to encourage webmasters to ensure their web sites are...

Locksmith Sues Google, Others Claiming Spam Local Listings Illegal
A Northern Virginia locksmith has sued Google, Yellowbook (hibu) and Ziplocal under multiple state and federal laws, including the...

What CMOs Need To Know About Google’s New Structured Snippets
Have you heard some rumblings about “Structured Snippets” in Google’s search results and are wondering what’s up with that? Don’t worry....

How A Google Mistake That Killed BuzzFeed’s Traffic Turned It Into A Social Media Powerhouse
What helped turn BuzzFeed into a site that is the poster child for riding social media into massive popularity and traffic? Ironically,...
























