We finally have the first Google Quality Rater Guidelines update of 2022, and like usual, it is bringing some pretty significant changes. Google has published a changelog for this update, but as usual ...

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 ...

At SMX Advanced earlier this month, Gary Illyes from Google spoke about how Google uses – and does not use – clicks. Google uses clicks made in the search results in two different ways – for ...

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 ...

Twitter announced in their developer forums that they plan to move their URL shortener t.co to HTTPS. Twitter is making the change to ensure the links are delivered securely to their users. It was an ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bing has added a new feature to their local knowledge panel that allows searchers to book appointments directly through Bing rather than contacting the business independently. Here is what it looks ...

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 ...

There is a hot debate amongst SEOs about what type of redirects to use for SEO, particularly when it comes to passing PageRank. At Big Digital Adelaide today, I asked Gary Illyes from Google about the ...