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There are a few Black Hat communities discussing and complaining about ranking drops for some of their web sites over the past 24 hours. The public one is at Black Hat World and it shares that the ranking drops at Google started last night...

Wix, the popular low cost web site builder tool, seems to be having issues with their web sites being indexed in Google. It seems like many web sites powered by Wix have recently been dropping out of the Google index.

I am seeing new reports via Twitter and the Google Analytics Help forum that the Google Analytics Search Engine Optimization Queries report, where you link up your Google Search Console with Google Analytics and the report funnels in there...

A couple weeks ago, we covered how Google has a new app indexing ranking factor that will boost your app content if you use the new Google App Indexing API. I also mentioned then that the new iOS documentation is out...

One of the challenges of optimizing an ecommerce site that has lots of filtering and sorting options can be to try to create a click path through the site so that all the pages on the site that you want indexed by a search engine get crawled and...

Google App Indexing has allowed publishers to serve up links within Google’s search results on iOS that lead directly into their apps, but only for Chrome. Now, Google has announced similar support is coming to Safari, for those on iOS 9.

Spotted via VentureBeat, Google shared on its Google Developers Google+ page that iOS apps can now have deep links to their content appear when people do a Google search in Safari, with the right setup:

App Indexing is now compatible with HTTP deep...

The new Google Hacked Sites Algorithm which launched this week, we think, is said to impact about 5% of search queries. It aims at removing sites that are hacked in the search results, to keep the search results safe...

I just returned from a few days in Las Vegas and the Pubcon Conference.

I had the chance to see some great presentations and talk to a number of interesting folks, and the company that I am the Director of Search Marketing at, Go Fish Digital...

Earlier this year, Google announced that it was seeing more search activity on mobile than desktop, for the first time. The caveat was that this was for 10 countries, including the US. Today, Google’s now said this is the case worldwide.

It was last May when Google said that more searches were happening on mobile devices than desktop, in the US, Japan and eight other countries that weren’t named. Today, Google’s senior vice president of search Amit Singhal reiterated that statement when...