For the original iTunes version, click here. Well over a week after the Google August 2024 core update finished, we still have a ton of volatility. Apple Visual Intelligence was demoed at the Apple event this week, it is neat. I covered a bunch of statements on Navboost over the years from Googlers and … Read more
In my interview with Danny Sullivan, the Google Search Liaison, I tried to get more details on Navboost and how it plays a roll in core updates and general rankings. I was pretty much shot down (I am a good loser). That being said, here are some old posts from ex-Googlers (from what I can … Read more
In an effort to keep users on their sites, some publishers have hijacked the browser back button by providing a feed of articles that drives users to more publisher content, including sponsored content and ads. That’s versus allowing them to return to the sites they visited from… It’s a tricky and deceptive tactic, since users … Read more
Google’s commitment to delivering the best search results to its users has led to the development of advanced algorithms to determine the websites that dominate the SERP for any given query. At the core of these efforts is a focus on user satisfaction as a key measure of a website’s quality and relevance. By prioritizing … Read more
Blog / SEO Strategy / Navboost: What the docs tell us and how to use it for your SEO Learning how search engines work can be a confusing process, but that’s what keeps SEO exciting. Navboost, one of the most important Google ranking systems, is no less intriguing. This topic has been all over the … Read more
This is part 3 of my series working to understand more about the attributes in the recently discovered Google API files. Part 1: What is this “leaked” Google documentation? Part 2: What are attributes? Navboost is one of Google’s core ranking algorithms. It uses user click data to help refine a bunch of search results … Read more
The Google Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, gave a more specific comment to specific signals and elements mentioned in the search leak, well above and beyond what is mentioned in the original and very vague comment gave us a couple days after the Google search leak. Sullivan responded to questions on Navboost, clicks and user interactions … Read more
There’s been a lot of speculation of what Navboost is but to my knowledge nobody has pinpointed an adequate patent that could be the original Navboost patent. This patent from 2004 closely aligns with Navboost So I took the few clues we have about it and identified a couple likely patents. The clues I was … Read more
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