Let’s first make sure we understand what on-page SEO is and why it matters. What is on-page SEO? On-page SEO (also called on-site SEO) is the practice of optimizing web pages to rank higher in search engines. It includes optimizations to visible content and the HTML source code. Why is on-page SEO important? Google looks
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Is Google the New Home for Machine Learning on the Web? I recently wrote about a patent from Google describing machine learning to identify opinions in news articles in the post Opinion News Found By Machine Learning at Google The use of machine learning is growing at Google. In this patent, Google may use machine
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Google Search now can show a countdown timer widget in the movie search results. Here is a screen shot I grabbed the other day: I think
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Valentin Pletzer noticed Google testing having the related search boxes carousel stick to the top of the mobile search results as you scroll. So those related searches just hang out at the top of the search results even if you scroll past them. Here is a static image Valentin posted on Twitter: Here are some
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Yesterday we reported that Google launched a whole set of new manual actions for Google News and Google Discover. The good news is that Google said a manual action for Google News or Google Discover will not impact how you do in Google Search. It will just impact your performance Danny Sullivan of Google said
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In the beginning of this year, Google added a page around the 3D and AR Early Adopters Program, that page was recently taken down. Google said it has “removed the page about joining the 3D and AR Early Adopters Program.” It was removed because “the program is no longer accepting submissions.” Google wrote on this
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There are some early signs from both the SEO community and the tracker tools that there is a big Google search ranking algorithm update going on. This has not been confirmed by Google, but that is not uncommon. There is some early chatter from within the community and some, not all, of the tracking tools
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Back in the super old days of blogging, like 2004 days, we use to love pingback technology in blogs because it was an automated way to get a link from a relevant blog post on someone else’s blog post and get some attention. But quickly it because super spammy. So when Gary Illyes of Google
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Here is a photo that might make you smile today. It is a cute and happy looking dog inside the basket of a Google bike at the Google campus. This was recently shared on Instagram as a throwback from a Googler. She wrote “throwback to baby gouda and when I used to work in an
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Google is once again testing infinite scroll on the mobile search results. We’ve seen numerous tests of infinite scroll, including on desktop results. The mobile search results right now have a “more results” button to load more results but in this test, the button is not needed. Here is a GIF from Brian Freiesleben of
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