HTTPS/SSL Sites Now Have a Ranking Edge!
So Google have told us by going HTTPS/SSL will provide the site with a ranking boost (but only a minor one). Google have mentioned that this factor is only very small and high quality content is still...
View ArticleAuthorship Markup Now Gone! – 28th August 2014
So its very nice of Google after everyone has spent time and effort to get their pretty little faces in the authorship within the SERP’s, only for Google to completely remove it. They started off by...
View ArticleAttack of Penguin 3.0 — October 17, 2014
More than a year after the previous Penguin update (2.1), Google launched a Penguin refresh. This update appeared to be smaller than expected (<1% of US/English queries affected) and was probably...
View ArticlePirate 2.0 — October 21, 2014
More than two years after the original DMCA/”Pirate” update, Google launched another update to combat software and digital media piracy. This update was highly targeted, causing dramatic drops in...
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Google sending “Fix mobile usability issues” warnings via WMT
Google seems to be sending out messages to a large number of webmasters who do not have a mobile friendly site, they state the number of pages they have tested and also the number of pages they deem...
View ArticleMobilegeddon Released by Google – April 22, 2015
Google had already warned us that this update and that it would be coming soon! It is finally here and launched on April 22 2015. So far the shifts haven’t been massive from the sites that i have seen...
View ArticleRankBrain Algorithm Update – October 2015
Google made an announcement revealing that machine learning had been a part of the algorithm for months, contributing to the 3rd most influential ranking factor. It is thought that this update was back...
View ArticleGoogle Manual Action Penalties for Blog Links
So it’s that time again when google pick off a few websites and smack them with a big stick! So what am i exactly trying to say?? The manual actions were for outbound links where bloggers were giving...
View ArticlePigeon Update! Doesn’t sound as scary as Panda or Penguin! – July 24th 2014
Google shook the local SEO world with an update that dramatically altered some local results and modified how they handle and interpret location cues. Google claimed that Pigeon created closer ties...
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Google Search Console Verification Hack – Don’t Get Caught Out!
So this morning was a normal day, i woke up check my emails… i noticed an email from “Google Search Console Team” stating a new owner had been added to one of the websites i’m an owner of. I thought...
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