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Twitter co-founder Biz Stone first launched Jelly a couple years ago. It was something of a Q&A service billed as a "new way to search." It didn't really catch on, and work halted....

Googler Tweets About Comments’ Impact On Search Ranking

In case you're interested in the latest on how Google views the comments on your content, Google's Gary Illyes (a webmaster trends analyst) provided some insight in a conversation...

Google Webmaster Guy On The One Thing He’d Ask From SEOs

Gary Illyes, one of the faces of Google webmaster relations in the post-Matt Cutts era, gave an...

Survey: Less Than A Quarter of SEOs Have Implemented AMP

SEO PowerSuite released results from a survey of SEOs, finding that only 23% have begun to implement Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) on their mobile sites, though a third plan to do...

When Google’s Penguin Finally Arrives, You Probably Won’t Ever Have To Wait For Another One

The wait continues for Google's much-anticipated Penguin update. Once the wait is finally over, however, webmasters and SEOs should never have to wait for another one again. That i...

Google Turns Search Into TV Guide, Announces TV Solutions for DoubleClick

Google made a handful of television-related announcements at the National Association of Broadcasters Show television industry event. For one, Google Search will start showing...

Google Gives Google News Boost To AMP Content

Back in February, Google introduced AMP content in search results on mobile devices. These appeared in a new carousel that says "Top Stories" on mobile search results pages:...

Google Toolbar PageRank Now Gone

Last month, we learned that Google was officially killing off Toolbar PageRank. The data...

Google Search Console API Gets A Few Updates

Google's John Mueller announced in a Google+ post that there have been a handful of updates to the Search Console API (formerly the Webmaster Tools API). This is the API that lets...

Google Will Announce The Long-Anticipated Penguin Update

Well, here we are halfway through April, and still no sign of that long-anticipated Penguin update. Google has been hinting at rolling this thing out for many months. At one point...

Here’s Bing’s Mother’s Day Guide For Marketers

Bing is sharing some Mother's Day search insights to help advertisers better plan for the holiday, which will be here in just over three weeks, meaning shopping time is from now an...

Google: Those Unnatural Link Penalties Are About The Product Reviews We Warned You About

As previously reported, Google handed out a bunch of penalties over the weekend for unna...

Google Will Show Users Warnings About Your Site If It Detects ‘Social Engineering’ Content

Google announced the expansion of the Safe Browsing protection efforts it discussed back...

Google Penalizes Sites For Unnatural Links

Google reportedly handed out a bunch of penalties over the weekend for unnatural outbound links. These are unnatural links going from your site to others. According to...

HTTPS Launched For All Custom Domains On WordPress.com

Automattic announced that they're launching free HTTPS for all custom domains hosted on WordPress.com. WordPress.com has supported encryption for WordPress.com subdomains since 201...

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