Google has announced that they “First Click Free” program is being changed based on publisher feedback In case you’re unfamiliar, the First Click Free program lets publishers who provide content behind a paywall the ability to allow Google, as well as some users, the ability to see that content for free. This is based on the number […]
Have you ever used the voice search feature in in the Google App and thought, “hey, I sure wish that it was faster”? Well, now your question has been answered and your wish granted. The search company announced that they have added new computational models that are “are more accurate, robust to noise, and faster to respond to voice […]
When you’re trying to get word out there about your business, there are many ways to do it. You can use AdWords, Bing Ads, email marketing, and various social media platforms to bring in as large of a customer base as possible. In social media, placing your content on social platforms like Facebook and Twitter are […]
In an announcement by Google, the company is experimenting with automatically reversing manual actions for hacked sites that have gone through the process of removing the hack. Google said: “… we’re beta testing the automated removal of some hacked manual actions. In Search Console if Google sees a ‘Hacked site’ manual action under ‘Partial matches,’ and […]
It was reported about a month ago, by the founder of Wikipedia, that they’ve been losing traffic in Google. Basically, they’ve been seeing less traffic coming to their website from the organic traffic in Google. This information was coming from both SimilarWeb, and partially from a confirmation of sorts from the founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales. There has been a new […]
Recently, the privacy regulator of France (CNIL) has rejected Google’s arguments against expanding the “right to be forgotten” (RTBF) to the company’s global index. It’s well known that Google has been limiting RTBF removals to European domains like Google.fr. The privacy regulators in Europe feel that by being given the ability to access Google.com to access “removed” […]
Creating a website and content for it can be pretty challenging to get off the ground. Luckily though, there are services that are available to use to make website creation much more simple. One such service is WordPress, which is the most widely used content management system (CMS) in the world. These days, roughly half of all […]
There was an anonymous update on the Google Webmaster Blog this morning from Google’s Search Quality Team saying that if webmasters continuously violated the Google Webmaster Guidelines and they get caught, ‘further action’ will be taken by Google against your site and/or “a successful reconsideration process more difficult to achieve. More specifically, Google is talking about manual actions, which […]
It’s been announced by Duane Forrester, the Senior Product Marketing Manager at Microsoft Bing, that they are going to retire the Link Explorer tool, which is found within Bing Webmaster Tools, on October 1, 2015. The purpose behind the Bing Link Explorer Tool was to let you discover links for competitive analysis. The tool was released back in […]
Remember back when we were told by Google’s Gary Illyes that by switching over to HTTPS would help improve your online ranking? Well, Gary’s at it again by saying that Google’s HTTPS ranking boost could end up being a tiebreaker when the quality signals for two search results would otherwise be the same. He spoke about this, and […]