It has been a year since we last saw Google’s Search Quality Rater Guidelines updated, but they released a brand new version over the weekend. Here is what has changed, with commentary about why it is ...

Tom Greenaway from Google spoke at Google I/O yesterday about how Google handles JavaScript pages, and he mentioned something pretty significant – Googlebot treats indexing and ranking of JavaScript ...

As a marketer, I prefer using Google.com as my primary search engine for many reasons. Sometimes I want US based searches but primarily it is because often Google tests or releases features on .com ...

Google has once again very quietly updated their Google Quality Rater Guidelines with a brand new version. This update comes as the third update this year so far (following ones in March and May), ...

A year after the last Quality Rater’s Guidelines were released by Google, we have a brand new version. And it has some pretty interesting changes – Google is explicitly declaring fake news sites as ...

Last week, Google shook things up by increasing the width of the search results, and increasing the length of the title tags showing in the search results with it. Google has also expanded the ...

Google has made some new substantial changes to their “How Google Search Works” search documents for website owners. And as always when Google makes changes to important documents with impact on SEO, ...

Many SEOs have debated over the years about whether they should ever use all CAPS, or even any capital letters, in a URL. While capital usage in URLs has fallen out of favor in recent years, some ...

Bing has added a new search feature for some of the more popular sites in the Bing search results. They have added a new carousel for “Trending on <Site Name>”. This seems to be a search feature that ...

We have another Google Quality Rater’s Guidelines & Handbook, and this one is mere weeks old – October 2015. And like the last time we covered the Quality Rater’s Handbook, Google has completely ...

At Big Digital Adelaide, I had a fireside chat with Gary Illyes from Google, and RankBrain was one of the hot topics of the afternoon. While we have seen many articles published on “RankBrain ...

We have a new piece of the SEO puzzle from Google. They have introduced a new ranking signal in the form of machine learning and artificial intelligence called RankBrain. Bloomberg broke the story ...