Not much news over the past seven days but some of the news is pretty big. Here’s what happened this week in SEO.
Blackhat SEO Leads to Hacked Sites and More | SEO Buzz
Not much this week as we’re still unwinding from the holidays. However, we did find a few tidbits of interest. Google: SEO Is One of the Main Reasons Why Sites Are Hacked This past week, on the Google+ webmaster channel, Google posted that one of the main reasons a website is hacked is because of…
SEO Predictions for 2017, Expert Insight to Plan for Success
It’s a brand new year. If history repeats itself, we’ll see many changes in SEO over the next 12 months. But how, specifically, will SEO change? Nobody knows for sure, except maybe a few folks at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. Of course, even those folks might not know everything that’s going to…
Amazon Reviews Guidelines: The Ultimate Guide
Nothing impacts a business quite like user reviews. For nearly 9 in 10 consumers, online reviews are just as important as personal recommendations. The internet has become a forum where these consumers can evaluate products and services based on feedback from other customers. It’s unsurprising, then, that e-commerce giant Amazon lets people write reviews of…
CDN’s are Safe, Mobile Index Isn’t Live | SEO Buzz
This week: Google added a new feature to mobile search results, CDNs are safer than many SEOs think, and guess what’s missing from the mobile-first index? Here’s what happened this week in SEO. Google: Mobile-First Index Isn’t Live Yet Some webmasters are under the impression that Google’s new mobile-first index is fully live. It’s not….
Google Adding Full Year of Search Data to Search Console
This week: moving around the header tags on your page won’t affect rankings, Google will change AMP results so you can share publisher URLs, and the Search Console now distinguishes between critical and non-critical errors. Here’s what happened this week in SEO. Google Will Change AMP Search Results so Users Can Share Publishers’ URLs Currently,…
Disabling AMP? Google Crawl Budget | SEO Buzz
This week: You can soon prevent Google from showing AMP results when you perform a mobile search, the crawl budget doesn’t work like you think it does, and there’s a new desktop search interface. Here’s what happened this week in SEO. Google: The Crawl Budget Doesn’t Work Like You Think It Does You might think…
Looking to Decrease Your Crawl Budget? Think Again.
This week: there’s a limit increase in sitemap file sizes, an old feature has been removed from the Search Console, and you might be surprised to learn what affects your crawl budget. Here’s what happened this week in SEO. Google and Bing Increase Sitemap File Size Limit to 50Mb In a joint announcement between Google…
The Ultimate Guide to Going International on Amazon
It’s a global economy. That’s especially true since the advent of the Information Age. Now, it’s even easier to reach people around the world than ever. If you’ve got a product or service with international appeal, you can literally market it to anyone with an Internet connection. However, you still have to invest time and…
Google Will Index Desktop Over Amp and Changes to Schema | SEO Buzz
This week: Google won’t penalize you for using multiple markup formats on the same content, the Hummingbird algorithm has nothing to do with spam, and wait until you hear how many web pages Google knows about. Here’s what happened this week in SEO. Google Will Index Desktop Sites, Even If They Have AMP For those…