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Google's John Mueller said in the webmaster hangout from Friday at the 21:52 mark that Google tends to launch many new changes to the search engine, including algorithm updates and tweaks...

Want to know about California’s Proposition 63, a measure to control gun ammunition sales and large magazines, which is on the state ballot this month? Google has the answer. It’s a “deceptive ballot initiative that will criminalize millions of law-abiding Californians.” So much for balanced search results.

Google presents that answer at the very top of its results, when searching for “Prop 63” or “Proposition 63,” as shown below:

To answer “What’s happening here,” as Medium CEO Ev...

Another point Google's John Mueller made in the hangout from earlier this week at the 42:47 mark was that Google does not have a "website authority score." He said "we don't have anything like a website authority score...

At this year’s Pubcon 2016, my presentation was about how I had added Knowledge panels, Sitelinks, Featured Snippets and information from the Google Search API into client’s Site Audits.

I had been doing this because Search Results at Google...

The other day, I interviewed Gary Illyes of Google and he said that the only factor Google looks at for the HTTPS ranking boost is if the URL is listed with HTTPS or not.

This is not new news...

With the US presidential election hotter than ever, Google’s program to give the major candidates valuable yet entirely free space in its search results wasn’t used by either campaign for the past week. The Hillary Clinton campaign finally began using of the space again today while the Donald Trump campaign has yet to resume. Free space for candidates, provided by Google

The space is provided through a program that lacks an official name but is commonly referred to by those outside...

As you know, we are expecting some negativity out of Penguin 4.0 because some links no longer count. So if a site loses links, or they no longer count, the rankings of the page can decline.
So I asked SEOs...

Shocking news, at least to me, came out yesterday at Pubcon from Gary Illyes talk. The other day, Gary said Google's Penguin algorithm is prepared for manipulation but in his presentation, he took it one step further...

Yesterday I reported at Search Engine Land based on Gary Illyes of Google's keynote at PubCon yesterday that Google is set to launch their mobile only index within a timeframe of "months...