As if Google couldn’t make it any more clear about them wanting your site to be mobile-friendly, they take the next step in making sure you know you it. Google is now issuing a new type of warning to site owners that will show up directly in the mobile search results, but only to the owner when […]
Google has announced in a post through the Webmaster blog that they’ll be boosting the effects of the mobile friendly algorithm that first launched on April 21, 2015. According to the company, the update will be “beginning in May” and will “increase the effect of the [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” […]
According to Googler John Mueller, said this morning in a Google Hangout that AMP is not a ranking signal in the Google search ranking algorithm. This can be found at the 15:50 mark into the video. It was reported back in December that AMP might become a ranking signal, but as of yet, it hasn’t happened. John […]
In a report by Advertising Age, Google’s AMP initiative will begin this coming Wednesday, February 24. This means that mobile users will start seeing AMP-optimized content from publishers in their mobile search results as soon as this Wednesday. We knew it was going to launch in February 2016, but it’s nice to know that there is an official date. As […]
Google has made it easier for users to find information on musicians, actors, TV shows and movies on their Android devices by updating its search app. In their announcement, the company said “No matter what music, actors, movies you love, our new update will keep you in the know.” Google says that the search results for things […]
When it comes to how Google handles ranking apps in 2016, Google’s App Indexing will be something that will be very important for SEOs to pay attention to. Barry Schwartz had the chance to talk to Rajan Patel, Google’s director of mobile search, about the key differentiators between how Google ranks web content versus app content. Because of […]
Google came out on September 1, saying that giant ads for apps may lead to ranking declines starting on November 1. The algorithm update, the “app install interstitial penalty,” went live, but a whole day late on November 2. The announcement was made by Google on various social networks, including their own Google+, saying: Starting today, pages […]
An announcement was made on September 30th by Mariya Moeva, A Google Webmaster Trends Analyst, during SMX East that not only will there be an app ranking boost (which Google announced n February 26, 2015), but an additional ranking boost for those apps that utilize the new App Indexing API. According to Mariya, when an app utilizes the new API, […]
If you believe that showing off large ads on mobile devices will really get the user’s attention, you may be in for a bad surprise. In a Google announcement, it was said that app interstitial ads covering “significant amount of content” on your page isn’t just annoying, but non-mobile-friendly and won’t rank as well as those […]
These days, it’s no secret that mobile configuration for any business running a website is a big part of the future of SEO and digital marketing. There are statistic out there that says that there are more Google searches that take place on mobile devices than desktop computers in 10 countries. We also have to to take into […]