Google’s John Mueller explains common reasons for a gradual decline in rankings. The post Google Explains Gradual Declines in Ranking via @martinibuster appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

As you know, Google said they would move the right hand side featured snippets from the right side to the center, but until then, Google would stop deduplicating those snippets. According to both RankRanger and Moz, Google has removed a nice chunk of those, about 60% according to these tool providers

This is fun – as you know, the SEM community is not super happy about the change in requirements around the Google partner badges. Google tried to clarify and dumb it down a little but in short, SEMs feel the requirements align too much with Google revenue goals and less with client goals

Google is updating its image search results pages with icons indicating what type of content the images lead to. The post Google Updates Image Search With Icons for Products, Recipes, & Videos via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Posted by Dr-Pete Being #1 on Google isn’t what it used to be. Back in 2013, we analyzed 10,000 searches and found out

I often give this fluffy advice that you should “build a site and content that Google is embarrassed doesn’t rank well for the queries they deserve to rank for.” Well, here is an example of that advice working. John Mueller of Google has watched a site do everything it should and it still doesn’t rank

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Google’s John Mueller said that in 2020 does “use PageRank internally.” He added that it is one of among many other signals Google uses. But Google does not use domain authority, a metric from Moz, he had to say again.

The latest automated extension test from Microsoft Advertising. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Read on to learn the core rules of Google PageRank, its history, and how it impacts SEO.