Tag Archives: Ranking

Rating Adjustments Associated To Google March 2024 Core Update

Today is the first day I have seen solid evidence of serious ranking volatility and changes related to the big Google March 2024 Core Update. As a reminder, the Google March 2024 Core Update officially started on March 5, 2024, and will take up to a month to roll out fully. We are expecting numerous […]

Google Rating Volatility, Tons Of Google Bugs, Most Learn Articles, Bing Deep Search & High quality & SEOs Not Loving Google

We had two periods of Google Search ranking volatility this week, one last weekend and one on Thursday or so. Google court documents say search quality has improved and not degraded. Google dropped the see more results in the local panel this week for a period of time until it fixed that bug. Google also […]

Early Indicators Of One other Google Search Rating Replace On February 28/29

I am seeing early signs of a possible Google Search ranking algorithm update starting yesterday, February 28th, and into today, February 29th. The chatter started to spike yesterday amongst the SEO community and some of the third-party rank tracking tools are showing a spike in volatility. Again, Google has not confirmed an update in over […]

Google Says Disallowing UTM Parameters In URLs Will not Help With Crawling Or Rating

Google’s John Mueller said on Reddit that disallowing URLs with UTM parameters in them won’t help you to improve crawling or rating with Google Search. He added that a site should try to keep its internal URLs clean and consistent, but over time, the canonical tags should help with external links that carry UTM parameters […]

Large Volatility Reported – Google Search Rating Algorithm Replace

I am seeing some massive volatility being reported today after seeing a spike in chatter within the SEO community on Friday. I have not seen the third-party Google tracking tools show this much volatility in a long time. I will say the tracking tools are way more heated than the chatter I am seeing, so […]

Google Investigating Situation The place Adult Sites Not Rating For Its Identify

Google is investigating a possible issue with its search results where Google is not ranking adult-oriented sites for its brand name in some regions. Instead, Google ranks the adult site’s help and support section above the home page for its name. The issue started around February 8th and was first reported by Vicky Mills, the […]

Google Search Rating Replace, Recipe Blogs Drop, Google Hits Critiques & Extra web optimization, PPC and Local

For the original iTunes version, click here. This week, we covered another unconfirmed Google search ranking update that hit on February 14th and 15th. Google has some bugs or changes that really hurt recipe bloggers big time right before the Super Bowl. Google’s featured snippets disappeared for a couple of hours on Thursday. Google’s local […]

Google Says EEAT Is Not A Rating Issue Nor A Factor That Components Into Different Components

We’ve covered Google saying E-E-A-T is not a ranking factor too many times here but have we covered EEAT not being a thing that factors into other Google ranking factors? That is what Google’s Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan said the other day on X. Danny Sullivan wrote, “It’s not a ranking factor. It’s not a […]

Google Replace Brewing, High quality Enhancements Nonetheless Coming, Rating Confusion & Bing Deep Search

For the original iTunes version, click here. This week we covered a new possible Google search ranking update that started brewing on Wednesday, February 7. Google’s Danny Sullivan said again, search quality improvements are coming in the near future. Google said it will clarify E-E-A-T and its search quality raters. Google explained the differences between […]

Google Search Rating Algorithm Replace February seventh and eighth

I am seeing signs of a new Google search ranking algorithm update brewing. It started yesterday, Wednesday, February 7th, and is going into today, Thursday, February 8th. There is an increase in chatter within the SEO industry and also some, not all, of the tools are showing spikes in volatility. This is all while we […]