Kashin / Shutterstock.com In November 2016, Google launched their mobile-first index experiment and hoped to do enough testing to launch it sometime in the near future. Well, it seems this mobile-first index has proven to be a challenge for Google, and they may not even launch it this year. At …
Read More »SearchCap: Google Fred confirmation, mobile-first index status & future of search
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google: Our search leads won’t let us talk about the Fred updateMar 23, 2017 by Barry Schwartz Gary Illyes from Google said the techniques Fred went …
Read More »Google’s mobile-first index is (still) months away
Don’t freak out. That’s what Google’s Gary Illyes repeated this week — at least three times — to SEOs and webmasters who might be concerned about the upcoming switch to a mobile-first index. “The team behind the mobile-first index wants it to launch this year,” Illyes told our SMX West …
Read More »A simple checklist to prep for the Google mobile-first index
Hopefully, all of you learned from “Mobilegeddon” in 2015 and “Mobilegeddon 2” in 2016 that the updates Google makes to improve the smartphone user experience for the majority of Google searchers are not the end of the world. Not even close, in fact. Still, I have seen a lot of articles …
Read More »SearchCap: Google link command, mobile-first index & SEO problems
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google has officially killed off their link commandJan 12, 2017 by Barry Schwartz Google tells webmasters and SEOs to stop using the link command, that it …
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