We didn't have any official search quality algorithmic updates this past month, but Google did admit to a core algorithmic update which was pretty big in our books.
Google keeps promising a Panda update soon, they promised it over and over again this past month. Maybe we will see it in July? We also learned more about Google's long term plans on Panda and Penguin.
Google Capital funded Thumbtack got a Google penalty, which was reversed within a week. This caused many to call foul but Google hinted it was a great reconsideration request.
Emojis are gone from Google after months. Google was caught powering Yahoo Search and Matt Cutts extended his leave until 2016.
Here is a link to last months recap and a summary of the key stories for the past 30-days or so:
Google Algorithm Related
- Google Core Algorithm Change: Not Panda, Not Penguin & Not HTTPS
- Google Update Happening? Maybe Panda About To Kick Off?
- Google: Panda Refresh Not Likely Happening On July 4th Weekend
- Google: Panda Algorithm Refresh Still Coming Soon
- Google Cricket Update This Weekend?
- Early Signs Of A Google Update In German Regions?
- That Google Update May Have Benefited News Or Fresh Content Sites
- The Mysterious Faster Google Penguin & Panda Algorithm
- Google: The Panda Refresh Coming Really Soon
- Google: Penguin Will Run & Refresh In Real Time One Day
- Google Reverses The Thumbtack Link Penalty, Rankings Return
- Google: Great Reconsideration Requests Get Processed Fast; Hints At Thumbtack
- Thumbtack Apologizes After Google Penalty; Asking For Link Removals From Businesses
- Google Asks Webmasters: Do You Want To Compare Sites In Google Search Console
- Google Search Console Upgrades Help Feature
- Google's New Search Console Promotion Video
- Google Search Console Won't Associate Hyphen Domains For Apps Indexing
- Google: No Comment On What Triggers Manual Action Penalty Reviews
- Google: We Do Take Action On Black Hat Spam In Spammy Niches
- Video: The Full Recording Of Danny's Interview With Google's Gary Illyes
- The Dreaded Google Reconsideration Request Response
- Google: We Make Thousands Of Updates To Search Algorithms Each Year
- Google Calls Them Featured Snippets, Knowledge Cards & Live Results
- Google: We Remove Your Rich Snippets For Spammy Structured Markup Penalties
- Google's Spammy Structured Markup Manual Action Lead To Ranking Decline?
- Google: Flash Game Sites Often Not Seen As High Quality
- Google Crawl Limit Per Page: 10 Megabytes
- Google: Your SEO Spam May Come To Bite You Years Later
- Expedited Indexing For New Content: Google Recommends PubSubHubbub Still
- Google PSA: Don't Add Noindex Directives In Your Body Content
- Google News Now Enables Image Selection For Publishers Via Schema Or og:image
- Google: Don't Nofollow Good Links On Your Web Site
- Google: Your URLs Should Be In Your Contents Language
- Google Breadcrumbs Documents Explains Handling Multiples
- Google Breadcrumbs Docs Updated But Don't Expect Hyperlinks To Return
- Google: Implementing HSTS Without HTTPS Support Can Cause Issues
- Google's Site Name Markup Not Supported For Subdomains
- Businesses; Update Your Business Hours Or Google Maps Might Tell Your Customers To Turn Around
- Google: Traffic From Search A Quality Indicator? Not Necessarily.
- Google: We Treat 429 Error Code & 503 Error Code Equally
- Emojis No Longer In Google's Desktop & Mobile Search Results
- Google Didn't Get Rid Of All Emojis In The Search Results
- Google Testing New Local Mobile Interface On Desktop
- Google Search Image Carousel Adds Pinterest, Vines, Houzz & Food Network
- Google "Slow To Load" Label
- Hotel Amenities Now On Google's Knowledge Graph
- Google Search With Blue Navigation Links, Not Red Links?
- Google Refreshes The Google Cache Page
- Yahoo Search Testing Google Results Over Bing
- Google Isn't Paying Matt Cutts But He Is Still On Leave Through End Of 2015
- Google To Honor "Revenge Porn" Removal Requests, Like Other Sensitive Removal Requests
- Google's John Mueller Looking Up Despite The Critiques
