This past month we still didn't get that Penguin update but we are still crossing our fingers. We did see some signs of updates this past month but it wasn't Penguin - some think possible Panda shuffles.
Google killed off toolbar PageRank and it is only a matter of time until they do the same for RankBrain based on all the misinformation out there. Google updated their quality raters guidelines and expanded their help documents on local SEO ranking. Google also warned about a mobile friendly ranking boost coming in May.
There is much more, so here are the important topics that I think you need to review if you didn't follow this site on a daily basis. Oh, and if you missed last month, go here.
Google Updates:
- Signs Of A Google Update; Not Sure If It Is Penguin...
- Former Googler: Google's Early March Update Gone Unnoticed Long Enough
- A Google Update Brewing? Showing Some Signals.
- Google: The Top Three Ranking Factors Are Content, Links & RankBrain
- Google: RankBrain Does Not Currently Affect Crawling
- Google's Paul Haahr: We Don't Fully Understand RankBrain
- Google Updated Quality Raters Guidelines Last Week
- Google: Quality Raters Primarily Use Mobile Devices
- Google Can Drill Into Search Quality Raters Results To Learn More
- Google Expands Local Ranking Help Document
- Google To Boost The Mobile Friendly Ranking Factors In May
- Watch Google's Top Ranking Engineer, Paul Haahr, Talk On How Google Works
- Google May Expand App Install Interstitial Penalty To Sneaky & Deceptive Alternatives
- Google's Paul Haahr On Patents For Learning SEO
- Google: Machine Learning For Spam Detection & Search Quality Is Coming
- Former Google Spam Fighter: Machine Learning Already In Spam Algorithms
- Google: Web Spam Algorithms Global But Some Regions Pose More Spam Issues For Google
- High Bounce Rates On Web Sites Don't Necessarily Impact Google Rankings
- Google: HTTP/2 Doesn't Have A Direct SEO Benefit But Makes For Faster Sites
- Google: Don't Worry About Duplicate Content With PDFs & Web Pages
- Google On Image Title Attributes For Ranking
- Google: isSimilarTo Not Similar To Canonicals
- Google: Multiple Title Tags Doesn't Cause Problems For Us
- Google vs. Moz On Clicks Influencing Search Ranking
- Google: Space Separated Attributes In Nofollow Still Nofollows The Link
- Google: SEOs Are Wrong, 302 Redirects Pass PageRank
- Google: Reviews In Original Language On Internationalized Pages Are Acceptable
- Opt Out Of Google Feature Snippets With nosnippet Tag
- Google: No, We Don't Understand Text In Images
- Google Smartphone Crawler Will Drop iPhone User-Agent For Android
- Google Search Analytics Let's You Save Dynamic Date Range URLs For Reports
- Google: Content In aside Tag Treated Similarly To Other Content On Your Page
- Google: A Penguin Site Cannot Be Fixed By Google Manually
- Google: Why Google Doesn't Go Over Every Ranking Factor For Webmasters
- Google On Why They Use DMOZ: I Have Absolutely No Clue
- Coming: Google Search Console May Split Out Where Your Page Showed In The Search Results
- Google Repeats: Don't Remove Authorship Markup From Your Pages
- Google Offers Help On Resolving AMP Errors In Search Console
- Google's First Part Of Query Analysis Is Entities Discovery
- Google Doing Massive Site Migration Of Blogs From Blogspot To GoogleBlog URL
- Google Pre-2005 Use To Test Swapping Position 2 & 4 For Years
- Google Knowledge Graph Panel Adds Share Feature & More
- Google Testing Images In Search Results Snippets
- Moz: Google Displaying "People Also Ask" Box More Often To Searchers
- Google Image Search Launches Colorized Filter Buttons
- Google News Carousel Gets Category Toggle
- New: Google Review Snippets In Local Pack
- Google Changes Local Reviews - Removes Google+ Page & Simplifies Adding Reviews
- Google Testing Removing Reviews From Local Map Results?
- Google: AMP Powered News Carousel Only Live In 12 Countries
- Google To Complete Major Redesign For AdWords Over Next 12 Months
- Google Revamps Search Advertising Exam For Google Partners
- New: Google Analytics 360 Suite
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