Do organic keyword rankings matter anymore?
With all the ways search engine results pages have evolved over the years, columnist Julian Connors explores the question of whether SEO is still a wise investment.
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Google Android search app will keep trying your searches when your internet connection is poor
Don’t you hate it when your phone loses it’s internet connection and you can’t search for something on Google? Well, Google’s latest Android app makes that experience a lot better.
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Survey: 60 percent of voice users want more “answers” and fewer search results
Making calls, searching, texting and map lookups were the most common use cases for voice.
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A simple checklist to prep for the Google mobile-first index
Columnist Bryson Meunier believes that for savvy marketers, the rollout of Google’s mobile-first index will represent an opportunity — not a threat.
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Paradigm shift: Has Google suspended defamation removals?
Columnist Chris Silver Smith takes a look at what could be a recent policy shift in Google’s longstanding informal policy of granting court-ordered defamation removal requests.
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Google launches a new look for recipes in the mobile search results
Google launched a new way to find new recipes for your New Years feast. The new recipe results are seen on mobile search.
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Google’s top results for “Did the Holocaust happen” now expunged of denial sites
Initial fix merely bumped denial site down, then failed to work consistently. Now the denial site is gone from first page of results.
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Google’s results are no longer in denial over ‘Did the Holocaust happen?’
Criticized for listing a Holocaust-denial site first, Google’s results are finally changing — but probably due to external factors.
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Google studying ways to deal with offensive search suggestions & results
Facing criticism over “fake news,” inappropriate search suggestions and more, the search company is looking for long-term and comprehensive solutions.
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Recent changes to organic sitelinks cause major drops in impressions in Google Search Console
Google released sitelink updates that caused impression and average position drops in Google Search Console. Merkle SEOs Melody Petulla and Kyle Blanchette dive into what happened, how to check your site and what it means for SEO.
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Google begins rolling out a new desktop search user interface
Check out the new desktop search interface rolling out to a Google near you.
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SEO trends to prepare for in 2017
What’s on the horizon for search engine optimization (SEO) practitioners in the coming year? Columnist Pratik Dholakiya shares his predictions.
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Google & Bing increase the file size limit of Sitemaps files
While the 50,000 URL limit has not changed, your Sitemaps file size can now be up to 50MB.
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Google knowledge panel now showing videos from the web carousel
Videos are now showing up below the Google knowledge panel for some queries, including local panels and other knowledge panels.
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The trouble with truth
Do search engines and other content distribution platforms have a responsibility to present information that is true? Columnist Janet Driscoll Miller discusses the issues surrounding this question.
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US Presidential election data: searcher intent vs. demographic polling
Politics aside, data from the 2016 US Presidential election illustrates that intent-driven search data “trumps” demographics-based polling data.
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Google may pick desktop over AMP page for the mobile-first index
Google’s mobile-first index may index your desktop version over AMP when there is no mobile version of your website.
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Google adds what’s on TV soon to search results
Get the showtimes for your favorite television shows on Google with the new “On TV Now” box.
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Web giants Google and Facebook seek to cut off revenues from fake news sites
These ad policy changes don’t guarantee fake news won’t continue showing up in the Facebook News Feed or Google search results.
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5 steps to optimizing your site for Google’s mobile-first index
Now that Google is officially testing a mobile-first index, columnist Ryan Shelley believes it’s well past time to get aboard the mobile-friendly train. Here, he provides some tips to get you started.
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