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…
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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…
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…
Google is Crawling Mobile Pages First, How to Make PWA’s Indexable | SEO Buzz
This week: TLDs won’t affect your rank, Google releases a list of best-practices to make PWAs indexable, and mobile-first indexing is already under way. Here’s what happened this week in SEO. Google Releases List of Best-Practices to Make PWAs Indexable Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are mobile applications that implement a combination of technologies to provide…
Possum Affects Local in a Big Way, Google Doesn’t Play Favorites | SEO Buzz
This week: You can now embed forms in AMP pages, Google doesn’t play favorites with WordPress, and you might not believe how much the Possum update changed local search results. Here’s what happened this week in SEO. Forms Can Now Be Embedded in AMP Pages This past week, the Accelerated Mobile Pages project announced support…
More Google Updates are Coming, AMP is Showing In Organic Search | SEO Buzz
This week: more updates are coming, Google uses “a bunch” of algorithms to check for duplicate content, and wait until you hear how many links in the search results use HTTPS. Here’s what happened this week in SEO. Google: Links to Images Are Different Than Links to Sites Yes, Google treats links to images differently…
Sitemaps for SEO, How to Achieve Full Indexing Potential
Watch a Video on Sitemaps for SEO or Read the Full Article Below A sitemap of your website is essential to great optimization. It is like a roadmap for both search engines and users, providing a complete layout of how your website works. This lets web crawlers navigate your site intelligently and also provides metadata…
Faking HTTPS Boost and No Rank Increase for Penguin | SEO Buzz
This week: Keyword Planner adds a new feature, that HTTPS ranking boost can be faked, and it’s easier than you might think to rank your AMP pages. Here’s what happened this week in SEO. Keyword Planner Adds Forecasting Feature There’s a new feature in the Keyword Planner: forecasting. Now, you can see search volume trends…
SEO Buzz: New AMP Testing Tool, Penguin 4.o Rollout, and Mobile Index
This week: Google is creating a separate mobile index, a new AMP testing tool allows you to check your pages for compliance, and the Penguin rollout is finally complete. Here’s what happened this week in SEO. Google Will Separate the Mobile and Desktop Indices Soon, Google will create a separate mobile index that will act…
SEO Buzz: Google is Putting More Focus on Mobile Search
This week: You might just want to keep on using that disavow file after all, expect to see fewer organic blue links in search results, and you might be surprised at how many people are using Google only on their smartphones. Here’s what happened this week in SEO. Report: Almost Half of All People Search…