Category: Google PageRank & Algorithm Updates

Google announced yesterday that they are now rolling out mobile-first indexing to sites that follow the best practices for mobile-first indexing.

As I mentioned in my Friday video, there seemed to be some chatter around the algorithm update starting back up again after a number of days of calm. Well, the weekend got pretty heated with chatter within the community…

Google’s Nathan Johns from the search quality analyst team at Google…

A week ago Friday there was a Google core algorithm update that touched down pretty hard. Technically it was released on March 7th but most noticed it on March 8th and 9th. But people are still noticing it.

The ongoing WebmasterWorld thread has a …

Yesterday we reported that we thought there was a Google algorithm ranking update over the weekend and to my surprise, Google actually confirmed it. Danny Sullivan at Google said on Twitter that yes…

There may have been an algorithm update with the Google search rankings over the weekend, starting around March 9th…

It has been a pretty busy month in the Google SEO and webmaster world. We had two possible Google algorithm updates…

Over the past couple days or so, the ongoing WebmasterWorld thread has some folks passionately yelling there was a massive update, while some are saying it looks all static and fine from their point of view…

I am starting to see a bit of chatter around the SEO industry about a possible Google algorithm and ranking update…

This past month, Google announced the Page Speed update, a new ranking algorithm designed to lower the ranking of mobile pages that are really slow. Google also may have released a few unconfirmed algorithmic updates to core search…

Over the past several days, people have been moaning about ranking and organic search changes in the SEO communities. The most public one is WebmasterWorld, but the overall “chatter,” as I like to call it…

Google announced yesterday a new ranking algorithm designed specifically to downgrade the search rankings of really slow mobile pages. Google said “starting in July 2018, page speed will be a ranking factor for mobile searches…

I am starting to see some early chatter within the webmaster and SEO community around a Google search algorithm update. It is pretty early but the ongoing WebmasterWorld thread has some chatter as of yesterday afternoon through today…

It seems that while it may have kind of quieted down a bit over the first few days of the new year – starting around January 5th and 6th throughout the past couple days…

December, normally a pretty slow month in the Google organic SEO world, at least in 2017 was super busy, again…

Danny Sullivan posted on Twitter that he hopes Google will communicate more about larger Google updates in the future. Here are the tweets where Danny Sullivan said this:

I hope that we’…

For the past few days, I have been tracking webmaster forum chatter around another update that may have started around December 26th or so. The dates are a bit fuzzy…

Google somewhat confirmed there were many minor updates in that time frame. One of those updates may have hit many celebrity web sites…

That update we’ve been tracking for over a week that I nicknamed the Maccabees Update, well, Google somewhat confirmed it…

By far, the biggest bulk of sites that I saw got hit all had tons and tons of landing pages target massive arrays of keyword permutations. So for example…