Last week, Google announced that they had conducted a study recently to research the folks behind the fake listings on Google Maps. According to the study the “geographic proximity is the coin of the emerging localized-search realm.” Some of the things that Joy Hawkins saw in the study that were helpful to know is as follows: Most of the listings […]

Action has been taken by Google against airline deal websites like TripAdvisors, Expedia and others for misusing product rich snippets in their structured data markup.  Googled ended up taking manual action against these sites by removing the rich snippets in search results for using this markup when showing price data for fight destination pages. It was confirmed yesterday […]

It’s crazy to think of how when search engines like Lycos, Yahoo and Google made their first appearance on the internet, they weren’t nearly as advanced algorithmically as they are today.  It was super easy to cheese the system and get your website up to the top of the results page. But as time went on, […]

When you get a security warning in Google Search Console (GSC), it can be a scary experience.  You can get a warning for a variety of reasons, including your site being flagged for being hacked, or for serving malware or unwanted software.  If something like this happens, security warnings in GSC can result in some […]

Do you remember when Google warned webmasters last month against using sneaky mobile redirects, either intentionally or unintentionally? Last week, during a Google hangout, Google’s Search Quality Senior Strategist, Andrey Lipattsev mentioned in a Google hangout that his team is working specifically on detecting and taking action on mobile affiliate traffic networks that bounce users from one […]

According to Google, they are rolling out a series of search algorithm changes that will “aggressively” target the presence of hacked spam in search results. The engineer who wrote the blog post, Ning Song, said that Google is turning up the dial in their algorithms to removed hacked sites from their search results.  Here’s a part […]