Google has updated its search ranking algorithm to "more strongly affect the sites that host explicit videos but don't allow Googlebot to fetch those video files" which may lead to a "significant drop ...

Leaked Google documents has given the search industry proprietary insight into Google Search, revealing very important elements that the company uses to rank content. Thousands of leaked documents, ...

We may be seeing the start of a Google Search ranking algorithm update, as I am starting to see volatility spiking in the Google Search results and a spike in chatter within the SEO community. I know ...

Google responded to a small publisher whose article offered a step by step walkthrough of how big corporate publishers are manipulating the Google Reviews System Algorithm and getting away with it, ...

Google recently updated its local search ranking algorithm to strengthen its “openness” signal for non-navigational queries. “We’ve long used ‘openness’ as part of our local ranking systems, and it ...

Google will give priority to sites in organic page ranking that encrypt pages, content. Zineb Ait Bahajji and Gary Illyes, Google webmaster trends analysts, described the change in a post. In the ...

A purported leak of 2,500 pages of internal documentation from Google sheds light on how Search, the most powerful arbiter of the internet, operates. A purported leak of 2,500 pages of internal ...

Google reviews aren't just nice to have for your business. They're a critical ranking factor that directly determines whether you appear in local search results or get buried on page three where ...

Get a better understanding of Google's ranking systems with this excerpt from SEJ's Ranking Factors 2023 ebook. Look at the impact of query intent on ranking. There are multiple ranking systems, and ...