Last year alone, over 3,200 changes were made to Google's search system. This came out of Google's blog post on keeping its search results relevant and useful. On average, Google makes a number of changes to search every day, and the 3,200 would equate to several a day. Google wrote, “Our search algorithms are complex math [...]
Its been confirmed by Google that they ran a "broad core algorithm update" last week that impacted the appearance and rankings of some websites in the search results. It was posted on Twitter by Google that it doe these types of updates "several times per year" and that there isn't anything a site can do specifically to [...]
With Google's Page Speed Update, you won't have to worry about it impacting how Google indexes your mobile or desktop content. It will affect only how the mobile pages are ranked in the Google mobile search results.Keep in mind that indexing and rankings are two different things, as Google explains in the How Search Works portal. There [...]
In October 2015 Google stunned the search world with a rare announcement of a major addition to their search algorithms, called RankBrain. Since that announcement there has been a lot of speculation (some of it, frankly, pretty wild) about what RankBrain does and doesn't do. In this episode of Here's Why, Mark Traphagen asks Eric [...]