No Rich Snippets; Other Sites in Same Search Results Plays Role as Rich Snippets may depend on quality of other pages in your SERP as Rich Snippets may depend on quality of other pages in your SERP. So if your page is not getting a Rich Snippet, it may be because of...

Google head of search announces retirement. Amit Singhal will be succeeded by John Giannandrea, who leads the company’s artificial intelligence research.  Brands can now Edit their Knowledge Graph Data. You must be an Official Representative for the brand (just...

AlphaGo Concurs Go using machine learning, the number of moves in Go are roughly equal to a google more than all those in chess. An interesting example of a timely SEO win in politics. Carly Fiorina was the only GOP candidate to use the freely available card carousel...

Big Google Update! But it’s Not Penguin 4.0, not Panda (though Panda now part of the Core Algo), Brand Term related (big impact on News Sites). It is apparent that many loser domains are classic print publishers and their losses in rankings mainly stem from older...

How Does Google Handle Different Types of Duplicate Content? Created by Technical Issues? Ross Dunn and John Carcutt learn the impact of duplicate URLs via A Google Search Console Webmaster Tools help page.  Google explains, “When Google detects duplicate content,...

Learn all about changes to Google+ Local.. Google AMP may be coming to an SEO requirement near you, Penguin 4 may be here in January, and Yahoo may possibly be up for sale!  Also, its finally time for Star Wars!! Most important topic of the week !!! This December 16th...

BuzzSumo study on content, SEO relevant part: 50% of content gets less than 8 shares (across all social, 75% of content generates ZERO links.  Google moves to streaming apps in mobile search, current Google+ changes, and user behaviour as a ranking signal. This...

BuzzSumo study on content, SEO relevant part: 50% of content gets less than 8 shares (across all social, 75% of content generates ZERO links.  Google moves to streaming apps in mobile search, current Google+ changes, and user behaviour as a ranking signal. This...

6000 members on the Google+ community; Google launches new search results interface for tablets; What does Yahoo’s new Google partnership mean for SEOs future?; Google search broken for days for IE users…If you are used to a large amount of IE traffic to your sites...

Learn all about the new Google RankBrain algorithm as well as what the possibilities and implications of “Self-Learning”are. Google WMC detects and gets rid of unwanted  sneaky mobile redirects and Bing tags breaking news videos with “New” in search results. This...

Yahoo’s new deal with Microsoft left open 49% of their search to in-house or 3rd party results. Seems they have signed a deal with Google to help fill that. Not going to happen for EU or India probably to prevent Antitrust issues. Still needs Govt. Approval. An...

Yahoo’s new deal with Microsoft left open 49% of their search to in-house or 3rd party results. Seems they have signed a deal with Google to help fill that. Not going to happen for EU or India probably to prevent Antitrust issues. Still needs Govt. Approval. This...

Hacked site notifications no longer show in search results .. neither do hacked sites, is it better to improve quality content than remove pages to fix panda, accelerated mobile pages in search, as well as several other hot topics including a follow up to Carl Bucsh’s...

Google Changes Remove URL Tool, Google says Don’t delete your rel=author, plus things to look for when outsourcing your SEO, plus listeners questions on business keywords and user giving Google reviews in the place of establishment they are reviewing This October 7th...