In an announcement made earlier this month, Google reported that the latest update to its search engine algorithm is intended to increase the relevance of original reporting. Media outlets have frequently accused Google of costing them online traffic, and contributing toward a decline in their industry, with the search engine tending to show only the […]
Tag Archives: Search Engine Optimisation
Google introduced the first ever Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) starter guide in November of 2008, to serve as a guideline for webmasters to better understand how to improve their websites for search engines and users using SEO best practices. The first update to the guide was way back in September of 2010. A lot has […]
If you head over to the biggest SEO forums at the moment, you’ll find them abuzz with a new and mysterious ranking factor called “Searcher Task Accomplishment”. It’s being dubbed the most important ranking factor to date. Forget about backlinks, traditional onsite SEO, Rankbrain and every other ranking factor you’ve ever worked on. Searcher Task […]
Search engine optimisation. One of the holy grails of online marketing is the first organic result for a search for your products or services. Everybody wants to be on the front page, everybody wants to be first. And equally obviously, only one result can be first, and only 10 (but probably fewer) results can be […]
Earlier this month, Google’s latest algorithm update went into effect, penalising mobile sites with intrusive pop-up ads and interstitials (the full screen ads or notices that load on top of the page you were going to). Intended to improve the user experience for people trying to access content on mobile devices, this change has followed […]
Ok, maybe not strictly AI in the truest sense, but a few days ago, in the wake of new Google “over-company” Alphabet earnings reports, Google revealed that for several months already, an artificial intelligence system nicknamed “RankBrain” has been responsible for handling “a large fraction” of their daily user queries. We’ve always know that about […]
As of the beginning of this month, Google began implementing a change to the way that the local results are displayed in search. Where we’ve been used to search engine results displaying 7 local listings (with the map on the side), Google has now replaced this with only 3 local listings displayed in-line with the […]
If you upload PDF’s to your site for your visitors to read or download, it’s a good idea to keep in mind that in many cases, Google can read that PDF and even display its contents in search engine results. As far as Google is concerned, a PDF is just another type of web page, […]
After months of relative quite, Google announced last week that they had begun rolling out the newest update to the infamous Panda algorithm, designed to reduce search engine rankings for low quality sites. This update brings Panda (first released in 2011) to version 4.2, and is the 29th official update to the algorithm. According to […]
It was announced yesterday in a post on the Google Research Blog that Google has rolled out a new feature that can show tabular data from your page under the description in the search engine results. That means that if you have a table of product specs, for example, on your page, relevant information from […]
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