Category: Search News

Limiting functionality minimizes negative effects and makes restarting easier. Temporary closures do not affect rankings or visibility.

Keeping track of major SERPs movements and Google algorithm updates.

With 70% of sites already moved over, Google sets date for mobile-first indexing as default for all websites.

Image dimensions to be replaced with product, recipe and video icons, with licensable badges to follow.

Google’s Danny Sullivan says “we do updates all the time”.

Survey shows meta descriptions a key driver for search clickthrough, and searchers prefer organic results to ads.

The new reports make it easier to monitor performance and fix issues.

Listings with featured snippets will no longer appear twice on the 1st page of Google search. How does it work and what does it mean for webmasters?

With the Super Bowl about to kick off this Sunday, Google have already released their half time ad for 2020. And it's a bit dark.

Details are emerging of big ranking fluctuations following the 14 Jan core update. Here’s an overview of the impact and what we know so far.

Redesign has bold, black Ad labels and allows favicons in organic results.

And… we’re off. Google kickstarts 2020 with a core algorithm update.

The “Nov. 2019 Local Search Update” applied neural matching - “the super synonym system” - to local search. Here's what you need to know.

Two new reports show how your product rich results perform in Search, and the top signals driving conversions in Ads.

Google’s auction for ad space not helping shopping price comparison service rivals, according to Margrethe Vestager.

Google has announced a major update introducing Google BERT, “representing the biggest leap forward in the past five years, and one of the biggest leaps forward in the history of Search.”

You may have heard of the 'link tax' last year, well it didn't go away. It's being implemented and Google is making changes.

E-A-T and YMYL are concepts, and numerous algorithms and signals are used to see if content matches.

Google steps up the competition with Amazon ahead of the holiday shopping season.

Google have announced they are rolling a new broad core update, as of the 24th. Here's what we know.

A clear set of schema types for review snippets has been defined, self-serving reviews are not permitted and name property is now required within the markup.

Google says adoption of new attributes is volutary, nofollow continues to work for sponsored links.

Google Assistant beats Siri and Alexa, but all show continuing improvements in understanding and accuracy as voice assistant use reported to have reached "critical mass".

Google's blog post fleshes out advice to webmasters on actions to improve rankings following a core update.

Wall St Journal report outlines scale of problem which affects both businesses and consumers.

Early data indicates news and YMYL sites among those impacted by Google's latest core algorithm update.

The update went live as scheduled on Monday 3 June and will roll out over the next few days.

Google gives advance notification of core update.

Google no longer sports their unofficial ‘Don’t be evil’ mantra, but they appear to have picked up a new one. Helping you ‘get things done’. It doesn’t sound like a problem, until of course they choose to help users get things done in your market.

New websites need to make sure they're fully ready for mobile.

What was new in Search from I/O 2019? Quite a lot. Announcements covered AR, 3D objects, Google Lens, Assistant and News.

Why has visual search suddenly become a thing, and what can you do to optimize for it?

As Google complies with EU ruling, users will be able to choose from a randomized list of rival browser and search apps.

Fallout from the de-indexing bug, which Google fixed last week, is continuing.

Google highlights advances in countering spam but says hacked websites remain a major security problem.

Google has confirmed that a broad core algorithm update was released last week. What do we know so far?

Google explains how dates are determined in results listings and outlines best practice.

Google unveils more ways to get your products in front of consumers.

Combine multiple properties to see an aggregate view of your data and a complete picture of how Google sees your domain as a whole.

Find exactly what you're looking for on Google with these clever shortcuts and hacks.