Google announced yesterday that they are updating their smartphone user-agent to a new user-agent on April 18th. The new user-agent drops the iPhone bit from the string and replaces it with Android…

Posted by Web_Perfectionist [Estimated read time: 9 minutes] What is Google AMP? The Google AMP Project is a way of fast-tracking content to mobile devices

Google has deployed RankBrain for some time and we know it is confusing so there are many questions out there on it. One question posed to Google was how does RankBrain impact crawling on your web site. Does RankBrain determine how much Google will crawl your site..

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Search Engine Roundtable Stories: A Google Update Brewing…

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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

Traditional signals such as Facebook page likes and clicks don’t equate to the best customer engagement strategy.

A question was posed to Google’s Gary Illye’s on Twitter if Google’s crawler and indexer understands the text embedded in an image, maybe through OCR or other techniques. I am surprised to hear Gary say no…

Google announced its mobile-friendly ranking signal is about to get stronger beginning in May.