Announced earlier this year, Google’s “Speed Update” is officially beginning its rollout. This means that loading times on mobile will now affect search rankings, especially for the slowest sites.
From scanning news headlines to checking weather and traffic updates, and shopping online, search engines offer us rapid access to simple data we rely on to make it through each day.
Bulleted lists or numbered lists can be a very important part of your online content. The main reason for this is simply that your audience likely prefers it. According to some studies, respondents were given the choice between content formatted as paragraphs and content formatted as a list. All the same information was presented in both cases, but nine out of 10 respondents chose the content with a list. So if you are trying to create a site that your audience will connect with, this is one of the best ways to do it.
Google recently tweaked it’s algorithm in an attempt to provide users with more relevant and useful information during local searches. The change, dubbed the “Pigeon Update” by the experts over at Search Engine Land, has reportedly caused local search to function more like typical web search through the use of similar ranking signals.
Google’s recent debut of the intuitive search feed, Discover, for U.S.-based mobile users comes fresh off of the heels of the company’s 20th-anniversary announcement detailing a wide range of future innovations
After explaining why new pages drop in ranking over time and warning site owners about the dangers of purchasing a spammy domain, Google web spam chief Matt Cutts is back with a new informative video. This time, Cutts is talking about the top 5 mistakes site owners make with their SEO.
Smartphones have officially taken control of the internet. People use them to search more often than they use desktop or laptop computers. Statistically speaking, it is more likely that a person browsing your site will use a phone to do it than any other device.
Although it is hard to believe, Google is now celebrating 20 consecutive years of helping organize and make information accessible for users in an ever-expanding global network.
Back in December, we reported that Google was adding a mobile usability feature to Webmaster Tools. The feature is designed to help webmasters determine which pages on their site are not mobile-friendly, and it provides suggestions for fixing usability issues.