During the SMX West “Search Inside The App” panel on Wednesday, Mariya Moeva, Google’s Webmaster Trends Analyst said that Google is working on ways to improving app discover within standard web and mobile web search. Mariya, who is working with the team on App Indexing, said that they’re looking into how to improve app discovery through […]

On many websites, user experience (UX) is a pretty major thing.  Without it, the site would be dull, boring, and nobody would want to use it very much.  One word that is heard quite often with a great UX is ‘delight’.  This is a term that is commonly used when a website is fun to […]

It’s always interesting to find out how different sites compared to each other and themselves year to year.  Did they do better, did they do worse, or did they simply stay about the same in their rankings? Marcus Tober, who hails from Search Metrics, did a deep dive for the winners and losers in Google search results, […]

Several days ago, it was reported that China has not only blocked access to Gmail, but to other Google properties as well. It seems that the censorship hammer that China has been swinging around lately has even impacted Google Search in China as well.  By checking out Google’s transparency report for Web search access within China there […]

According to Zaheed Sabur of Google, a brand new release this morning of another Google feature was unveiled.  By searching Google for a hashtag, you may end up getting Google+posts that use that hastag that is displayed on the right of the normal search results. At this point, the new feature will only be available […]

Lately, it seems there have been huge spikes in chatter amongst SEO and webmasters about Google search results shifting changing. There have been complaints from many SEO’s and webmasters about the rankings in the Google search results. It seems that search results have declined drastically. Images have shown significant drops in traffic from Google organic […]