Since the Google February 2023 product reviews update on February 21st, we’ve been seeing some pretty big swings in the search results – a lot of volatility, more than the norm. And that continued through the past weekend. As a reminder, we reported on very large fluctuations on March 1stspikes on February 25th and now […]
I am seeing a much bigger spike in chatter within the SEO community this morning around another Google search ranking algorithm update. It might be related to the ongoing Google February 2023 product reviews update or it might be something new. Right now, the tools and the chatter within the community are pretty extreme. The […]
Here we go again; yet another Google search ranking algorithm update seems to have touched down on February 14th, maybe as early as February 13th, and seems to be continuing to shake things up throughout today. We previously covered unconfirmed updates on the 8th/9th and also the 4th. I am seeing an increase in chatter […]
I am seeing signs of another Google search ranking algorithm update just a few days after the February 4th Google search ranking update – Both of these have not been confirmed by Google. This February 8th and 9th Google update may be even stronger than the previous update. I probably should have covered this yesterday, […]
There may have been another unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm update – this one also on the weekend, around February 4th, maybe kicking off on February 3rd. I am seeing signs from both chatters within the SEO community, and also, some of the tools are showing big swings around February 4th. The previous updates we […]
In part one, we go through Jeff Ferguson’s long history in search marketing. In part two, we pick up with him starting his own agency. Then in part three we talk about the state of SEO studies. In short, he goes off on his rant on SEO studies done on ranking factors and other areas. […]
Gary Illyes of Google said in the Google SEO office hours from yesterday that verifying your website in Google Search Console won’t impact your Google Search indexing or ranking whatsoever. Gary said, “Having your site verified in Search Console or changing the verification code and method has no effect on indexing or ranking whatsoever.” John […]
It looks like we may have had another tremor or Google search ranking algorithm update kickoff yesterday, Wednesday, January 18th. We just had after the December 2022 helpful content update other December 2022 link spam update finished on January 12th and now we have this, again. I am seeing both chatters from deep within the […]
Just a couple of days after the December 2022 helpful content update other December 2022 link spam update finished on January 12thwe are now seeing another update, an unconfirmed update that seemed to have hit on Saturday, January 14th. The chatter began about a day before at WebmasterWorld and the tools, most of them, picked […]
In Google’s fifth release of the product reviews updateGoogle added that linking to multiple sellers is part of the overall algorithm. Alan Kent from Google said yesterday on Twitter that when all else is equal, “linking to multiple providers might get a small boost.” Reminder, Google wrote on this product reviews update, “include links to […]