Back in 2016, we covered how Google’s John Mueller said product pricing is not a web search ranking factor. Well, the same is true in 2022, six years later. But this time, Danny Sullivan of Google explained why it is not a ranking factor. Danny Sullivan said on Twitter “prices change all the time, so […]
Google may have started to release another Google search ranking algorithm update starting Friday, March 18th through today, March 20th. This is an unconfirmed update but unlike the last one we reported, we have both chatter from the SEO community and also the tracking tools are picking up on it. I am calling this the […]
On last Friday’s hangout with Google’s John Mueller, Ankit Dalal, an SEO, asked about a site he is working on and what the issue it has with rankings. In short, the site was not ranking well, so they migrated the site to a new domain and the rankings climbed for a three-day period, then after […]
Sometimes when Google wants to encourage site owners to take action, they might give us a ranking boost for implementing it. They did add super light weight ranking boosts for mobile friendly design, page experience and many more. But when it comes to encouraging folks to switch to Google Analytics 4, Google’s John Mueller said […]
This past Friday, March 4, 2022, I noticed that the chatter within the SEO community started to heat up and then the day later, the automated search engine tracking tools started to show volatility. There may have been a Google search ranking algorithm update on March 4th. Let me start by saying it is likely […]
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter “we generally don’t use color as a factor.” He then added “but CSS tweaks can include a lot more than just color changes.” Here is that response in context: We generally don’t use color as a factor, but “CSS tweaks” can include a lot more than just color changes. […]
I am seeing new signs of a possible, but yet, unconfirmed Google Search ranking algorithm update that seemed to touch down on Thursday, February 24th. To be honest, this is most likely unrelated to the desktop version of the page experience update that started on Thursday, February 22nd. There is both a spike in SEO […]
Over the past couple of weeks, the Google search rankings have been pretty stable and calm. It actually has been unusually calm that some SEOs are getting nervous. I recently saw some super early signs of an update brewing. Is this the calm before the storm? We did see some limited signals of an update […]
So I wrote this pretty deep dive into How Google uses AI in Google Search at Search Engine Land, and Google posted a shorter version on their blog. I noticed after that, some folks were saying that Google uses MUM for search rankings. Truth is, Google uses MUM for only two things in search, COVID […]
Again, I’m seeing signals, both a lot of chatter from the SEO community and tools flashing around a possible, yet unconfirmed, solution Google search ranking algorithm update. Yes, there have been a ton of unconfirmed updates over the past few weeks, and let’s add this one to the list. Last time we had unconfirmed Google […]