Hidden within Google’s search quality rating guidelines are five important insights into the kinds of sites Google aspires to rank. The post 5 Strategies Unlocked From Google’s Quality Rating Guidelines appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google has quietly updated, or as they put it, “revamped” the Search Advertising exam for Google Partners. They posted this on the AdWords features change log but I have not seen anywhere else mention it…

The way 30 trillion web pages are ranked changed forever on October 26, 2015. That’s when the world became aware of RankBrain , Google’s machine-learning artificial intelligence system. Google calls RankBrain, when it’s in use, “the third-most important signal contributing to the result of a search query.” Google’s mission: to terminate any web pages from its results that don’t provide the highest-quality content and to find the most relevant answers for users

A list of things to check off before you launch your next WordPress website so that you can secure SEO bliss. The post Before You Launch a WordPress Site, Go Through This Checklist by @annaleacrowe appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

We all have bad habits. Whether it’s biting our nails, constantly driving like we’re on a racetrack or something you’d rather not admit to, we’ve all got them. Some are easy to break while others quickly find their way back into our lives

Posted by noahlemas [Estimated read time: 13 minutes] I had planned on writing about losslessness , about accurate reproduction. I’ve always found it strange that at just about the same time that true losslessness became widely available cheaply, we suddenly seemed to care less about fidelity than ever before. So I had wanted to discuss the Internet’s imminent future , almost undoubtedly VR-based and highly resolution-dependent, and how that vision is slightly at odds with its history of relegating virtually everything to simple, low-resolution, compressed formats

Today is the first day of spring and like every year, Google and the other search engines make a big deal out of it with a special logo or theme. Google’s Vernal Equinox logo is an animated GIF of flowers blooming and the rocks enjoying..

The animated doodle has replaced Google’s logo on many of its homepages in the Northern Hemisphere, leading to a search for “vernal equinox.” The post Vernal Equinox Google doodle welcomes the first day of spring appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Is there a wrong way and a right way to choose a domain name for maximum SEO? The post How to Choose a Domain Name for Maximum SEO by @neilpatel appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Twitter’s 140 character tweets are not going away, but tweets may still be evolving from how they’re currently being displayed in people’s timelines.