Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that mobile intrusive interstitial elements won’t generally impact indexing but it can have a ranking impact.

I’ve been asking Google for a month now how big of a change was the title change – where did it go from and to? Well, Google did tell us it uses HTML title tags 80% of the time but it didn’t tell us what that number was before. Now Google changed it to use it 87% of the time

YouTube offers its most detailed explanation yet regarding its recommendation engine and how it chooses which videos to display on your home page. The post How YouTube Recommends Videos appeared first on Search Engine Journal

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

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

Google’s John Mueller was asked on Twitter if the sitemap ping tool still works or not. John said that he is “not aware of any changes there, and the URL seems to be responding to get requests as usual.” In fact, the official documentation still has this as an option.

Many SEOs often forego Bing optimization in favor of its higher traffic counterpart, but this is another reason to diversify your target search engines. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Many SEOs often forego Bing optimization in favor of its higher traffic counterpart, but this is another reason to diversify your target search engines. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that he doesn’t think that Google does “anything special with all-caps headings.” So if you want to shout your headlines in UPPERCASE, go for it.

Google reveals new information about the page title update and explains why it replaces some titles and not others. The post Why Does Google Replace Page Titles? appeared first on Search Engine Journal .