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Just like we have an App Indexing API ranking boost, an HTTPS ranking boost, a mobile friendly ranking boost and other Google ranking boosts - yesterday...

Heard about Microsoft’s Cortana digital assistant but haven’t been able to try it on your phone, since it was only for Windows? Now iOS and Android users can use it, too.

Microsoft shared the news today on its blog. You’ll find the iOS version here; the Android version here. Both are only available for those in the US and China. For Apple, you need to run iOS 8 and above. For Android, you need Android 4.1.2 or higher.

Cortana is much more limited in what it can do running on iOS and...

There seems to be an unusually large number of manual actions being sent out by Google this week. I am not sure if they busted yet another link network or spam network or if it is just that they are trying to clear out the spam queue before the holidays...

Google has begun using revised language for some of their reconsideration requests and the question is, are these more confusing for users. I spotted two different cases posted to social media...

In a recent article at Search Engine Land we were told that Google Posts That Local Results Are Influenced By Clicks, Then Deletes That. It caught my attention, and had me investigating further. Patents Involving Clicks Influencing Search...

Although almost everyone, including Google, expected the Google Penguin algorithm to be revamped and released as Penguin 4.0 this year - that is not going to happen...

Yesterday I reported that Google said clicks impact Google My Business rankings. Well, Google later edited what they wrote and removed that clicks matter.

I believe this is common knowledge in the local SEO world but I don't think I've seen Google come out and say it. Google's Rahul J from the Google My Business team posted in the Google My Business Help forum four ways to help promote your local listing in the Google search results...

Over the past few weeks, I have been seeing sporadic reports in the Google Web Search Help forums around Google dropping the location setting, where you can filter search results based on a specific locale...