Talk about a crazy month in Google, Google launched Penguin 3.0 in a pretty sloppy way, they also launched the DMCA algorithm and had Panda refreshes throughout that time.
Google also updated their technical webmaster guidelines with extreme hints at mobile UX ranking signals. They added a feature to Webmaster Tools for mobile usability issues and did a ton of mobile interface warning tests.
Oh, Google also confirmed toolbar PageRank is dead again and released a new In The News news box that upset a lot of publishers. Finally, it looks like Matt Cutts is not returning in 2014 to Google.
The ongoing WebmasterWorld thread is still pretty active talking about all the updates, as many are still rolling out.
Here are all the stories you may want to catch up on in the past 30-days related to Google webmaster/SEO topics:
Google Penguin 3.0:
- Confirmed: Google Penguin 3.0 Released Late Friday Night
- Google AutoCorrects: Penguin 3.0 Still Rolling Out & 1% Impact
- Google: Penguin 3.0 Update Still Rolling Out Slowly
- Google Penguin 3.0 Updating Again?
- Google Penguin 3.0 Done Rolling Out
- Google Guidelines: Blocking CSS Or JavaScript Directly Can Harm Your Rankings
- Google: Bad User Experience For Mobile Users May Lead To Ranking Issues
- Google Webmaster Tools Adds Mobile Usability Errors
- Google Issues Global Warning Of Flash Sites In Mobile Results
- Google Mobile Warnings For Flash Sites Rolling Out Globally Now
- Google's Text Version Of Mobile-Friendly Web Pages In Search Results
- Google Displaying Not Mobile Friendly Icons In Search Results
- Google News Box No Longer Just From Google News Sources
- Google: Google News Publishers Don't Get Priority Within The New "In The News" Section
- New Publishers Upset With Google's "In The News" Box
- Google Change Of Address Tool Adds Step-By-Step Process Walk-Through
- Google's New nositelinkssearchbox Meta Tag
- Google News Publisher Center Rolls Out In More Countries
- Negative SEO Is Real & Google Needs To Fix It
- Google Processes Link Disavow Files Automatically, Without Human Review
- Google: Don't Use Hover Menus On Mobile Friendly Sites
- Google: Duplicate URLs In The Disavow Is Not An Issue
- Why Would Google Show More Indexed Pages Than Submitted Pages In Your Sitemap Report?
- Google On Being In Google News As A Search Quality Ranking Signal
- Google: Best To Use Both XML Sitemaps & RSS/Atom Feeds With PubSubHubbub
- Google: Spam Is A Hard Problem For User Generated Content Platforms
- Google: Disavow Bad Links Early & Move On
- Google: 30% Of First Page Search Results Contain HTTPS URLs
- Google SEO HTTPS Migration Checklist
- Google Poland Blog With Keyword Rich Anchor Text To Personal Googlers Blog
- Google Webmaster Tools 404 Errors Sorted By Priority
- Would You Let Google Look Over Your Shoulder As You Work?
- Matt Cutts Not Returning To Google In 2014: Will He Return In 2015?
Last month's report is over here.
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
