Here is the monthly Google webmaster report, if you missed last month, you will want to catch up there. In short, this month was more about Penguin 4.0, it is now fully rolled out and we understand better what Penguin looks for and much more.
Google's Gary Illyes said the mobile index is coming in months - which is big news. We know more about link labels in the Google index as well.
There may have been some minor updates or maybe even roll backs but it is unclear. The ongoing WebmasterWorld thread is discussing all of that.
Anyway, here are the more important stories you may want to catch up with if you were out this past month:
Google Penguin:
- Google Penguin 4.0 Declines Happening As Well
- Google Penguin 4.0 Rollback & Reversals? Some Think So.
- Google: Penguin 4.0 Now Completely Rolled Out
- Google: Penguin Looks At The Page Where Your Links Come From (Link Source)
- Google: Penguin Doesn't Use Machine Learning Within The Algorithm
- Google: We're Prepared For SEOs Trying To Manipulate Penguin 4.0
- Google: There Is No Penguin Boost
- Google To Launch Mobile Index In Months, Replacing Desktop Index As Secondary
- Google Still Figuring Out Issues With The New Mobile Index
- Google Algorithms Labels Links As Penguin, Footer, Disavowed & More - Googlers Can Look Up Link Labels
- Some Google Search Ranking Update Chatter
- Google Intrusive Interstitials Mobile Penalty Only Looks At Search Click Through The Page
- Google: We Don't Have A Website Authority Signal Or Score
- Google: We Don't Have "Overall Domain Authority" In Our Rankings
- Google On Sitewide Ranking Scores & How They May Be Used
- Google Page Layout Algorithm Penalty Is Updated Automatically
- Google: We Have A Bunch Of Original Source Detection Algorithms
- Google HTTPS Boost Still Goes To Insecure Pages, If They Are Listed As HTTPS
- Google: We Launch Many New Search Changes Towards End Of Quarter
- Google's Use Of Machine Learning In Ranking & Spam Algorithms Is Complicated
- Google: Crawl Requests Doesn't Hurt Rankings; Faster Crawl Doesn't Improve Rankings
- Google Algorithms Do Not Give WordPress Preferential Treatment
- Google: It's Safe To Remove Links From Disavow When The Links Are Removed
- Google's John Mueller: Links to Images vs Web Pages Are Pretty Different
- Google: No Need To Disavow Blogroll Or Sitewide Links
- Google: HTTP2 Doesn't Provide Big Advantage For GoogleBot
- Google May One Day Count Unlinked Citations For Search Rankings
- Google: International & Multilingual Links Are Not Seen As Spammy
- 77% Of Webmasters Want Google To Confirm More Algorithm Updates
- Google Search Console Has An hreflang Reporting Bug?
- Google Search Console Is Now Down - 404 Not Found
- Google Fixes Search Console Bug With Robots.txt Tester Tool
- Google Fixes Hidden Manual Actions Bug
- Google Search Console AMP Filter Only Shows Top Stories
- Google Tests Different Green Color For Snippet URL In Search Results
- Google Testing Sitelinks Icons
- Google Back Button Behavior Triggers People Also Search For Carousel
- Google Maps Updates The Search User Interface
- Google Maps Tests See Web Results Link In Local Results
- Google Maps Issue Didn't Show Store Hours For Some Businesses
- Google Maps Tests Showing Local Businesses Names
- Manage Your Business Attributes In Google My Business
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
