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Google announced yesterday at SMX East, as I broke at Search Engine Land yesterday, a new ranking factor (benefit) for those who deploy mobile apps but use the new App Indexing API...

John Mueller from Google announced on the Google Webmaster blog that Google has made the first big change to the first click free program since 2009.

Now, instead of allowing 5 articles for free, Google is dropping that to only 3 articles for free...

A few years ago, I wrote the following about post about Google’s OneBox Patent Application I was brought back to it, with a new Google patent that looks at answering questions within similar answer boxes, and showing rich content, like in the...

In a Google+ hangout from Friday, Google's John Mueller addressed a common thing you see on some e-commerce sites, the repetitive nature of category landing pages...

Early last week, I reported around chatter on a possible Google update from the weekend before, maybe starting around the 17th.

Well, that chatter has not slowed down much - in fact...

It has always been thought that Google has a ranking factor (small maybe) based on who you link to. If you link to quality sources that are on topic and useful, Google might consider that link quality and it may make you rank slightly higher in the search results...

Back in June, Google told us the Penguin update is months away at best. We also know Google is working on a real time update to the algorithm, so it runs immediately and would not require manual pushes...

A Google patent granted this week targets map spammers, who submit information about businesses to Google Maps, in a manner referred to as keyword stuffing.

The patent attempts to find words submitted by business owners as titles for...

Recently I’ve seen several interesting conversations about ad blocking, and I wanted to remind people about a great offering called Google Contributor. With Google Contributor, you contribute a certain amount of money each month. That subscription means that you see fewer ads on the web, and you support the sites that you visit with your money.

You get to decide how much to contribute (I do $10/month, but for example you can do $2/month if you prefer). The more you contribute, the fewer...

Google announced a ton of reminders around their handling of hacked sites within the Google Search Console...