Mobile, direct answers & site speed factors gain greater weight. The post The Periodic Table of SEO Success Factors: 2017 edition now released appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
Is some claim true or not? Google hopes special callouts for fact-checking articles will help searchers get the right answers or better make their own decisions.
Using data from human “quality raters,” Google hopes to teach its algorithms how to better spot offensive and often factually incorrect information. The post Google launches new effort to flag upsetting or offensive content in search appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
Check out the new desktop search interface rolling out to a Google near you. The post Google begins rolling out a new desktop search user interface appeared first on Search Engine Land.
While called an ‘experiment,’ it’s actually the first move in Google’s planned shift to looking primarily at mobile content, rather than desktop, when deciding how to rank results. The post Google begins mobile-first indexing, using mobile content for all search rankings appeared first on Search… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
Have you been waiting two or more years to recover from your Penguin penalty?
The latest announced release, Penguin 4.0, will also be the last, given its new real-time nature.
Google will reinforce its emphasis on the mobile search experience with a new penalty affecting “intrusive interstitials” on mobile web pages.
Google says the change is designed to declutter its search results.
The company says that AMP pages will not receive a rankings boost. The post AMP breaks out of news into the main Google search results appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article