January 2015 started out pretty slow with Google webmaster news but we are ending it with a lot of things happening. This includes a possible major Google update that Google said was only a tweak, as well as two other updates that were not disclosed or commented on by Google.
Google told us they may not be announcing future Penguin updates but that they do not release filibuster algorithms to annoy us. Google is bringing Tweets in real-time search, they started sending mobile warnings in mass and updated their structured data tool, testing new search query reports, improved the reconsideration request documentation and added third party apps to Google Now.
There is a lot more, here it is:
Google Algorithm Updates & Shifts:
- Significant Google Search Algorithm Update Yesterday
- Google: The Google Update Was Not Panda Or Penguin
- Google Search Algorithm Juno Blizzard Coming?
- Google: That Update Was Not Penguin Or Panda Related
- Google Algorithm Shifts? Some Early Chatter In The Community.
- Google: Penguin Update Should Be Faster & We May Not Announce It
- Google Have Algorithm Filibuster To Annoy Webmasters? Nope.
- Google: Penguin Algorithm & The Engineers Took A Break
- Google Real Time Search Coming Back With Twitter Deal; Spammers Rejoice
- Google Sending Mass Scale Warnings To Non-Mobile Friendly Web Sites
- Google Revamps Structured Data Testing Tool & Documentation
- Test Out The New Search Queries Report In Google Webmaster Tools
- Google Reconsideration Requests Documentation Adds Step-By-Step Instructions, Examples & More
- Third-Party Apps In Google Now Cards
- Google Webmaster Tools Emails For App Deep Linking Impressions & Clicks
- Google Webmaster Tools Noticies For App Deep Linking With Mismatched Content
- Google Mobile Snippets Now Also Showing Robots.txt Blocking Message
- Google.co.uk Chrome Users Sent To Google.com?
- Google Adds Social Profile Links For Brand Knowledge Graph Boxes
- Google Answers Now Showing Action Links For Third-Party Web Sites
- Google Knowledge Graph Events Gets Ticket Links, Comedian Events & Venue Events
- Google Launches A Mortgage Calculator, Take That Publishers!
- Google News Will Index Your Images Hosted On Different Domains
- Google: Solving Your Google Penguin Problems With More Unnatural Links Won't Work
- Google: Even Without Disavowing, Getting Good Links Can Remove Your Penguin Problems
- 80% Of Those Solicited Wanted Negative SEO Services
- Some SEOs Switching Back To HTTP After Seeing No Rank Changes In Google
- Google: Make Sure To Match Up Your rel=canonical & hreflang pairs
- Google: Upper Or Lower Case In Your Disavow Both Work Fine
- Google: Top Problems We See With Dynamic Serving Mobile Implementation
- Google Now Supports Crawling TLS 1.2
- Google Glass Says Farewell To Explorers; Will Version 2.0 Come?
- Video: Matt Cutts Talks About Google's Early Days
- 60% Say Matt Cutts Won't Return To Google
For the previous month's report, see over here.
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