As many of you know, Google is now in court over its monopoly ruling by the Department of Justice before the court rules on the remedy for such a ruling. The ruling may not come for a year or so, and Google will be in court for some time. But where are all those documents … Read more
You’ve probably heard about the recent Google documents leak. It’s on every major site and all over social media. Where did the docs come from? My understanding is that a bot called yoshi-code-bot leaked docs related to the Content API Warehouse on Github on March 13th, 2024. It may have appeared earlier in some other repos, … Read more
As you would expect, SEOs are poring over the Google API documents leaked this weekend. See Rand Fishkin’s and Mike King’s posts for more info. I thought it would be interesting to summarize all of the “Local SEO” relevant docs we can identify. I will be updating this post throughout the day as we find … Read more
As of the last few hours it has came to light that various internal Google documents, which appear to be legitimate, have surfaced. The “leak” is still live, which I will not link directly to, and came to light via someone who wanted to remain anonymous sharing the data with Sparktoro founder, Rand Fishkin. I’ve … Read more
The SEO community is buzzing about some recent U.S. Department of Justice documents released that hint at some ranking concepts at Google. One slide is named “The 3 Pillars of Ranking” and discuss body, anchors and user interactions. The slide says The 3 Pillars of Ranking: Body: What the document says about itself Anchors: … Read more
The US Federal Trade Commission has published previously redacted information detailing why it’s suing Amazon. New documents detail the alleged deceptive practices used to boost consumer prices by more than $1 billion including deliberately making Amazon search worse – a strategy reportedly approved by chairman Jeff Bezos. Why we care. If Amazon is found guilty of … Read more
On Friday, Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, shared on X some internal documents showing how he complies some of the feedback from SEOs online and then prepares that feedback to share with the Google Search teams. He has done this a couple of times before, in terms of publicly showcasing how he provides feedback to … Read more
The U.S. Department of Justice has released several new trial exhibits – including internal Google presentations, documents and emails related to ranking. Here are seven that specifically discuss elements of Google Search ranking. 1. Life of a Click (user-interaction) This is a heavily redacted PowerPoint presentation put together by Google’s Eric Lehman – and like … Read more
Blog / SEO Strategy / Page quality rating guideline The word ‘search’ has long become synonymous with navigating the Internet. With Google alone processing over 8.5 billion queries daily, maximum efficiency is required to direct users toward the most relevant content possible. To aid in this process, Google hires Search Quality Raters to provide feedback … Read more
Google has removed a couple of the Google News sitemaps help documentation. I should note, it seems these were removed a very long time ago, but the links to those documents still exist – but return a 404, page not found error. This was spotted recently by Taco Verdo who posted about it on Twitter. … Read more
421
229
714
826
543