Google product reviews algorithm update was big but not like a core update, say data providers
Here is a roundup of the impact of Google's most recent algorithm update that touched down on April 8, 2021.
Topic: SeoClarity
Google Search may be showing featured snippets less often
The tool providers are noticing a decline in the number of featured snippets showing up in the Google search results.
Google starts showing more images in web search results
It might be time for you to focus a bit more on image SEO.
Study: Google’s New Local Pack Shows In The Number One Spot 93% Of The Time
Now, with the new 3-pack local results box, you are way more likely to see them in the number one position.
Google’s Mobile Friendly Algorithm A Week Later: Was It Really Mobilegeddon?
Thus far it seems that Google's mobile friendly algorithm, commonly known as Mobilegeddon, has not been all that significant.
Mobilegeddon: Google Confirms Mobile Friendly Update Live In Some, But Not All, Data Centers
Google's John Mueller confirmed the mobile friendly algorithm is rolling out and is actually completely live at some data centers.
Did Google Really Start Rolling Out The Mobile Friendly Algorithm Yesterday?
Has Google really rolled out the mobile friendly update? As of now, very few signs say so but it might have just started about an hour ago.
SearchCap: Germany Publishers & Google, Bing Ads Tracking & Search Mobile CTR
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Growing Your Business With Customer Reviews – October 30 Webcast Learn how capitalizing on the insights from customer reviews can increase search traffic and landing page conversion rates. Join Chris Silver […]
Mobile Search Ranking Study: Rank Number One Or Not Rank At All
seoClarity has published a new click-through ranking study, this one not just looking at desktop search, but more importantly, mobile search. The study finds that if you do not rank in the number one position in the mobile results, the click-through rate drops off significantly, so much so that ranking number barely matters. Here is […]
SMX Advanced 2013 – Authorship: The Deep Dive
Authorship: The Deep Dive Presentations from SMX Advanced, June 2013 Just how important is “AuthorRank” to organic ranking? How important is it likely to become? Our experts will provide the answers, and dig into the technical implementation of how search engines are using authorship to trigger author headshots and related rich snippets in search results. […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 17, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Google’s Matt Cutts: Stock Images Do Not Impact Search Engine Rankings Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, said in a recent video that using stock images from a stock image […]
Advanced Authorship: The Deep Dive
Up Close Coverage From SMX Advanced 2013 Recently, I attended the SMX Advanced session, “Authorship: The Deep Dive“, moderated by Elisabeth Osmeloski, and featuring speakers: John Carcutt, Advance Digital, Janet Driscoll Miller, Search Mojo, Mitul Gandhi, seoClarity, and Mark Traphagen, Virante, Inc. There were a number of interesting takeaways. Mitul Gandhi is up first. He […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 12, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: George Bush “Miserable Failure” Google Bomb Back, This Time In Knowledge Graph The Google Bomb is back! Searching for [miserable failure] in Google now returns George W. Bush’s knowledge graph in […]
SMX West 2013: How To Groove To The Google Dance
How To Groove To The Google Dance (Yes, It’s Back) Presentations from SMX West, March 2013 In the early years, Google updated its index every month or so – something SEOs of the day called the "Google dance." Then updates became more frequent, and the "dance" went the way of disco. But today, Google’s got […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 21, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: How Account Quality Score Can Guide AdWords Optimization Last month, I covered four ways to use AdWords Scripts to improve AdWords account management. I didn’t share any actual code for fear […]
Developing A Global SEO Diagnostics Plan
A positive trend I have seen over the past few months is companies adopting a dedicated SEO diagnostics person or integrating SEO diagnostics into existing web diagnostics protocols. I have seen a huge missed opportunity, especially with global companies, that don’t take the action to monitor page inclusions, duplicate content and redirection issues. It is […]
90 Days Later, J.C. Penney Regains Its Google Rankings
J.C. Penney appears to be back in Google’s good graces after a 90-day penalty that removed the retailer from appearing prominently in Google’s search results for both short- and long-tail phrases. The company has regained first- and second-page rankings on a number of terms that were mentioned in a New York Times exposé of Penney’s […]
Number Crunchers: Who Lost In Google’s Panda Algorithm Change?
On Thursday, Google announced a major change to its search algorithm, designed to weed out shallow and low-quality content from its top search results. Content farms were seen by many as the target. Were they hit? Who was hit? Some figures are coming out.