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Google was granted a patent this week to enable them to check whether people are following recommendations in search results to visit geographical locations – to see how many people actually visited those places. And it’s probably good for many...

We just had some Google algorithm update a week ago potentially targeting spammy links I believe. And now a week later, around February 7th, yesterday...

As promised, Google is making a change to how it displays Accelerated Mobile Pages, so that users can easily view and share links that lead directly to publishers’ sites rather than to Google’s copy of the content.

Google has been displaying AMP content by effectively making a copy of it and rendering it from its own servers, something that Google says both makes AMP faster and more secure for users. However, this has raised concerns with publishers and some users, who have found the...

It was not a slow month when it comes to Google webmaster topics. We saw an unconfirmed Google algorithm update that hit spammers for the most part. We saw Google confirm a Japanese algorithm update but we had a couple smaller updates as well...

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Google was granted a patent this week on offering recommendations or suggestions for places to go for members of social groups.

A social group, such as a meetup group that may get together for social...

For the past 48 hours, I've been hearing some rumbles around Google algorithm updates and sites dropping. But the chatter was not that drastic...

A site named Just Miniatures in the UK seemed to have been hit by the Google mobile interstitial penalty, when in fact, it probably should not have been. This is in addition to many sites that should have been hit...

The folks at RankRanger reports that Google News on mobile is now showing close AMP in the US results up to about 70% of the time.

They said that between January 26th and January 29th is when they saw the spike...

I received an email this afternoon from a young man who is interested in a career in SEO, and he asked me how to get started, and I thought it was such a good question that I would include my response here on the blog to any others who might want...

In 2006, I wrote a post A Look at Google Midpage Query Refinements (Go ahead and read it; this post will make more sense if you visit the past and bring it in). The patent I wrote then was just granted again as a continuation patent, with new...