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If you have an iOS app, you'll soon be able to start seeing its content appear in Google search results on iOS devices just like web content. Google has been doing the app inde...

Don’t Do This If You’ve Been Hit By Google’s Panda Update

Google's Panda update has been around since February 2011 and continues to wreak havoc on websites when it finds content issues. Sometimes it's not clear that the site suffering Pa...

Google Tweaks Algorithm To Better Handle Hacked Spam

Google announced that it has begun rolling out a series of algorithmic changes aimed at better handling hacked spam in search results. The company says it is "aggressively" targeti...

Google Gives Updates On Panda, Penguin

Wondering what's going on with Google's Panda and Penguin updates? Well, not much has changed, but the company did address both at an industry conference. At SMX East, Google's...

Google Reportedly Adds Another App Indexing-Related Ranking Signal

Back in February, Google announced two major mobile ranking signals ba...

Google My Business Gets A Refresh

Google announced the launch of a new redesign for Google May Business. This includes updated navigation, which the company says is aimed at making it easier to access the product's...

Google Updates First Click Free Policy

Google introduced its "First Click Free" policy nearly a decade ago to help paywall-using publishers better monetize their content. It lets users see a little bit of content for fr...

Google Penguin Update Expected Before End Of Year

As of mid-July, Google was sending the message that a new launch of its Penguin update was still months away. Now, over two months later, it's getting closer. Just how close we don...

Google Improves Voice Search With New Acoustic Models

Google announced new improvements to voice search to make it faster and more accurate. The company has built new neural network acoustic model, which it says are a special extensio...

Study Finds Wikipedia Still Outperforms Google Properties in Google

Last month, there were a number of reports about a significant drop in Wikipedia's Google traffic. A report from SimilarWeb...

Study: Local Search Gets Local Businesses More Clicks, Calls Than Any Other Channel

Facebook may be doing more with is ads to help local businesses, but local...

Google Shuts Down Hotel Finder, Adds More To Hotel Ads

Google announced broader availability of its Hotel Ads Commission program, an expansion of its Book on Google feature and the addition of more information about hotel locations wit...

Where Your Business Needs To Be Listed For Apple Maps

It's hard to believe, but it's been three years since Apple dropped Google Maps from iOS in favor of its own maps offering. It got off to a rocky start, and Google would later offe...

Google ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ Appeal Shut Down

In June, French regulators ordered Google to extend its "Right to be Forgotten" search engine delistings to its sites around the world rather than only in Europe. From their perspe...

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