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On Friday, Google took to multiple company blogs to lay out a few "best practices" for bloggers and companies when it comes to the ladder giving the former free products, and the f...

Study Dives Into Google’s Third Most Important Ranking Signal

Google has been using one of its most important ranking signals for going on a year, and apparently it has so far helped improve search results on over half of queries....

Video Explains Why Your Site Can Benefit From Google Direct Answers

Webmasters have been concerned for years about the rich answers/direct answers that Google shows at the top of search results. These are the times when Google provides information...

Google Posts to Give Public Figures, Organizations A Podium in Search Results

Google is trying out a new social media-like experiment in its search results. We all know how the whole Google+ thing has gone, and now it looks as though the company is trying a...

Google Gives Updated Guidance On JavaScript, Progressive Web Apps

On Friday, Google webmaster trends analyst John Mueller gave webmasters an update on the current state and...

Google Talks Coming Penguin Update

There's no telling when Google will finally launch the next, much-anticipated Penguin update. Now, Google's Gary Illyes, who has been hinting at dates over the past year (only to h...

Google Offers Office Hours for AMP Help in 8 New Languages

Google has been holding a number of AMP office hours hangouts to help publishers better understand how to implement Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) on their sites and deal with the...

Google On AMP As a Ranking Signal

Google has been talking up Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) for months, promising a February launch date for when it would start sending search traffic from Google results to pages u...

Report Suggests Google Bought Links For Chrome Again [Updated]

A few years ago, Google kind of got caught violating its own webmaster guidelines. Specifically, a third party was doing some marketing for the company to promote Chrome, and they...

Google Announces AMP In Search Results

As reported on Tuesday, some users were already seeing AMP results in Google mobile search re...

Google Sends Search Traffic To AMP Pages

We knew it was coming this week, but Google seems to be rolling it out a day earlier than expected. We've known since early December that Google would start sending search traf...

Google AMP Results Get Launch Date (And New Help Resource)

We've known since early December that Google would start sending search traffic to Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) beginning sometime in February. Until now, we didn't know exactly...

No Telling When Google Penguin Will Return

What once seemed so close now seems so far. In other words, for some SEOs and webmasters who have been patiently (or impatiently in some cases) waiting, that glimpse of a light at...

Wikimedia Works On Search Improvements, Says It’s Not Competing with Google [Updated]

Note: This article has been updated with clarification directly from The Wikimedia Foundation. It would appear that there is a new search engine from Wikipedia in the...

Google Penguin Update May Not Even Happen This Quarter

For much of last year, Google suggested that a new Penguin update would likely hit before the end of 2015. That never happened, and it became apparent that it was pretty much ready...

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