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After removing the PDF from public download, Google has now published a revised version of the 164 page guidelines designed to help their team of search quality raters evaluate online content.
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At the beginning of the year Google announced that it was going to start using page speed as a ranking factor for mobile searches (previously, page speed was only a ranking factor for desktop searches).
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On June 25, writing in the Google Webmaster Central Blog, Search Console Engineers announced a brand-new URL inspection tool that has been added to the new Search Console.
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TL;DR: It can take up to several months for Google to see changes to your website. Core algorithm updates happen all the time; be aware of them. A general reminder that SEO takes time and patience. Reminder! SEO does not yield instant results This is widespread knowledge within the industry, and something that is taught […]
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In March 2017 Google announced that page speed is included as a ranking factor in its mobile-first index. For a long time Google warned that mobile sites are going to take greater priority over desktop sites, and in March, it stated explicitly that it was rolling out mobile-first indexing. In the post on the Webmaster […]
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For a number of years Google has strongly advocated moving sites to HTTPS as a form of basic security, and with Chrome 70 rolling out later this year (which will mark HTTP sites as not secure), the search engine is forcing the hands of Webmasters even further. HTTPS doesn’t necessarily mean that you have a secure website however, […]
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Not so long ago, watching someone shout an order into a phone was a novel and somewhat bizarre concept, but over the years, this has slowly become the norm. And this is exactly what the big players in voice search hoped for, as Apple, Google, and Microsoft have deployed voice search assistants around the globe, and […]
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The mobile-first index is without doubt one of the greatest shifts in Google in recent history, and probably one of the largest we’re likely to see for some time. Technically this isn’t a separate to the incumbent index, but is a fundamental shift in how content and URLs are crawled, weighted, and ranked. Today we’re […]
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Edit 26/03/2018: Just four days after publishing this blog, Google officially announced that it is to begin rolling out mobile-first indexing. Read about what the developers said, here. It’s no secret that Google has been encouraging a mobile mindset over the past few years, and has offered small ranking rewards for those that adhere. More recently, […]
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In a recent study by Oxford Economics, it was revealed that only 3 per cent of retailers have completed digital transformation projects. This is despite 93 per cent of online shoppers making purchases at stores based in the UK in 2017. What’s more, out of those that have started investing in digital transformation, 22 per […]
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Often, when people talk about international SEO, they focus on expanding into new markets, countries and languages to increase their market share. However, there can also be great gains in optimising for another language within your own country. Even then, it’s not always so straight forward, as there are regional differences and dialects to take […]
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On 6 February Google’s Search Console beta was made available to all sites after a limited release in January. One of the largest changes in the console is the fact that site owners are now privy to 16 months of historical search analytics data, rather than the three months that they were allocated before. This […]
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