Posted by Klara Cvitko on September 1, 2022
2021 was the year of updates and it feels like we spent most of our time chasing headlines around what Google update might be coming next. We’ve all been at the edge of our seats, waiting for something big to happen. After the May 2022 Core update and various changes to product reviews and the […]
…Posted by David Gale on January 6, 2022
While SEO strategies are developed for the medium to long term, they need to include some room for flexibility. It’s well-known that new Google SEO ranking factors keep arriving without much warning. The more significant updates such as E-A-T (expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness) evaluation can also make or break online business visibility almost overnight. With […]…Posted by Luci Wood on July 28, 2021
Just like loungewear and ‘you’re on mute’, the buzz around ‘Core Web Vitals’ has been a staple of 2021 for SEOs across the world. As we now head into the much anticipated rollout-out phase of Google’s Page Experience update, we caught up with a few of our clients to see how they’ve been getting on […]
…Posted by Chloe Smith on December 17, 2020
On the 3rd December, Google announced the December 2020 broad core algorithm update. It was unexpected and marked the end of a considerable gap between updates; the last broad core algorithm update was in May 2020. Broad core algorithm updates don’t introduce any new ranking factors but instead act as a rebalancing of existing ones. […]
…Posted by Simon Schnieders on October 7, 2018
On August the 1st Google launched a broad core algorithmic update nicknamed the ‘Medic Update’. Whilst there’s been a lot of opinion about what the August 1st update might have been related to, very few have written about recovery and the correlation of recovery. We believe this approach, can better help with understanding causation […]
…Posted by Luci Wood on April 1, 2018
At the recent Pubcon event in Austin, Gary Illyes stated that content order does impact your rankings and that if you ever decide to move your content to the footer then it’s likely that it won’t rank very well. Some SEOs were wondering why Gary had mentioned this again at Pubcon – content placement being […]
…Posted by Luci Wood on March 1, 2018
Gary Illyes, one of Google’s Webmaster Trends Analysts, confirmed at the recent 2018 Pubcon conference in Austin, Texas that the much-anticipated Mobile First Index (MFI) will be rolling out imminently, most likely within the next few weeks. So are you ready for the changes ahead? What will the Mobile First Index mean for your website? […]
…Posted by Tom Pool on January 20, 2018
Google Update PageSpeed Insights – A Review of the New Features Google announced speed as a ranking factor, albeit a minor one, almost a decade ago and it’s therefore critical for publishers to understand what Google’s view of speed looks like. We’ve therefore taken a great interest when Google recently announced an updated PageSpeed Insights Tool – […]
…Posted by Simon Schnieders on September 22, 2016
Almost half a decade ago we saw Google release one of its biggest algorithmic updates yet. Surprisingly, very few SEO professionals took notice, as they focused their attention on the stream of updates that came out at the same time, including Panda 3.3. The Google Venice update slipped under the industry’s radar, and with it, […]
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