During at a panel at SMX West, Gary Illyes commented that, beginning back in May 2014, they may discontinue the AJAX crawlability recommendations offered in the  Google Developer center.  For those who don’t know, Google has offered proposals on how to make AJAX, asynchronous JavaScript and XML, crawlable for search engines.  These services could very well end as […]

Last night, Google Maps has updated their local pages quality guidelines, and Jade Wang from the Google team posted the news in the Google Forums saying: “We’ve updated and clarified our quality guidelines for local pages. Please read the new version here, and, as always, feel free to contact our support team with any specific questions about […]

Today, the Google Webmaster blog has been  updated by Google Webmaster Trends Analysts, Pierre Far and Zineb Ait Bahajji about the official guidelines for moving your website with Google in mind as you’re doing it. With the updated material, the process was broken up into two ways of moving your site. 1.  Moving your site without […]

Early this morning, Google announced that they have updated their guidelines regarding site redirecting.  Two of their guideline documents were updated, and should now more easily clarify what are sneaky redirects that are against their webmaster guidelines. Expanding upon their guidelines, Google wanted to make sure that webmasters were clear about using sneaky redirects through […]

On the web, you will always see redesigns.  You may see a redesign how certain websites look, act, and deliver the content you are searching for.  It’s just a fact of digital life.  As more ideas come along, features will become developed and things will inevitably change.  But some changes don’t seem all that huge […]