Tag Archives: Ranking

Google Search’s 3 Pillars of Ranking Through DOJ Paperwork

The SEO community is buzzing about some recent U.S. Department of Justice documents released that hint at some ranking concepts at Google. One slide is named “The 3 Pillars of Ranking” and discuss body, anchors and user interactions. The slide says The 3 Pillars of Ranking: Body: What the document says about itself Anchors: What […]

Unconfirmed Google Search Algorithm Rating Update On October 27

On the heels of the last unconfirmed Google Search ranking algorithm update that touched down on October 25th, I am seeing signs of another tremor this morning – October 27th. Again, this is an unconfirmed update, Google has not announced any official update. This would be the second tremor post the completion of the Google […]

Google Rating Updates, Google On Unhelpful Content material, Google Ads, Maps & Extra

Google may have had an unconfirmed Google search ranking update on October 25th and a new one this morning on the 27th. Google provided information on what it thinks is unhelpful content. Google has finally confirmed it is testing ads within the organic search results. Google now supports syntax graph merge. Google Search Console had […]

Unconfirmed Google Search Algorithm Rating Update On October 25

I am seeing signs of another possible Google Search ranking algorithm update today that kicked off last night into today (October 24 and October 25). This is an unconfirmed update, Google has not announced any official update yet but maybe this is the first set of tremors post the completion of the Google October 2023 […]

Google Search Ranking Heated Volatility, Google Ads Serving Bug, SGE Lite & Extra

For the original iTunes version, click here. This week, we saw the impact of both the Google October 2023 spam update and the Google October 2023 core update with some really heated volatility. The day before, we saw some sites compiling their spam sites were no longer in the index. Google Ads had a long […]

Google September Helpful Content material Replace Carried out, SGE Updates, Hyperlinks Not A Prime Rating Issue, Bing Hiding Ads & Google’s twenty fifth Birthday

This week in search, Google finished rolling out the September 2023 helpful content update, which seemed to target SEO-first, search engine-first content in a big way. Google won’t be rolling back that update, if you were wondering. Google SGE got an update, too, with new, improved responses, safer responses, and also the “about this result” […]

Google Says Links No Longer A High Three Rating Issue

Google has been downplaying the importance of links in its ranking algorithm for the past couple of years now. But last Thursday, at PubCon, Gary Illyes from the Google Search team said he wouldn’t even put links into the top three ranking signals Google Search uses. Gary was quoted saying this in several posts on […]

Google Says Meta Description Size Does Not Matter For Rating Algorithms

Google’s John Mueller said the length of your meta descriptions do not matter to the Google search ranking algorithm. He said on X, “I’m sorry to tell you, those numbers are all made up” when someone referenced specific numbers. Khushal Bherwani, who sends us a ton of tips here, posted on X saying a client […]

Google Search Ranking Replace Volatility Tremors On September twelfth

I am seeing some early signs of maybe the first set of tremors post the Google August 2023 core update, which completed rolling out on September 7th. The new tremors seemed to have started yesterday morning and seem to be continuing throughout today. I am seeing SEO chatter, where SEOs start to talk about ranking […]

Google Search Rating Algorithm Replace – Unconfirmed

As I hinted to in my SEO video recap on Friday, we saw some early signing of an unconfirmed Google Search ranking algorithm update starting Friday, August 18th, and it went into Saturday, August 19th. It has actually been a while since I reported on one of these updates. The last time I reported on […]