Google is now saying it has ranking systems that “aim to understand if a section of a site is independent or starkly different from the main content of the site. This helps us surface the most useful information from a range of sites.” This is the reason that sites like Fortune Recommends, Forbes Advisor and … Read more
Promoting an operating system is one of the challenges that businesses face. It requires an extensive understanding of the product’s technical and user experience, and it can also present unique SEO challenges compared to promoting other products and services. Digital marketing today is challenging due to the complexity of operating systems, the number of target … Read more
Twiddlers are C++ code objects used in Google’s ranking algorithms that help Google re-order search results. They are used in a Google system called Superroot which is Google’s ranking framework. I came across this 2017 Google document on Twiddlers upon reading Mario Fischer’s excellent breakdown of what we can learn about how ranking works based … Read more
Topicality in relation to search ranking algorithms has become of interest for SEO after a recent Google Search Off The Record podcast mentioned the existence of Core Topicality Systems as a part of the ranking algorithms, so it may be useful to think about what those systems could be and what it means for SEO. … Read more
Google’s latest Search Off the Record shared a wealth of insights on how Google Search actually works. Google’s John Mueller and Lizzi Sassman spoke with Elizabeth Tucker, Director, Product Management at Google, who shared insights into the many systems that work together to rank web pages, including a mention of a topicality system. Google And … Read more
Google’s SearchLiaison responded to a plea on X (formerly Twitter) about ridiculously poor search results in which he acknowledged that Google’s reviews algorithm could be doing a better job and outlined what’s being done to stop rewarding sites that shouldn’t be ranking in the first place. Questioning Google’s Search Results The exchange with Google began … Read more
Have you noticed a dip in your search rankings lately? Are you feeling frustrated and anxious about your website’s performance? Given the state of SEO this past year, we’d be surprised if you didn’t. As the search landscape continues to evolve, we’re seeing a surge in volatility, with high-quality content often outranked by spam pages. … Read more
This is my second post in a series about the March 2024 broad core update. Again, it was a huge update with many moving parts, so I wanted to cover several interesting things that went on versus writing just one post. For this post, I’m going to cover a very interesting case study that underscores … Read more
Google was asked where Google’s Danny Sullivan and John Mueller get their information from when responding to search and ranking-related questions. Sullivan responded directly to the engineers who code those ranking systems at Google. The question posted was: At times you both speak very confidently about what the algorithm is supposed to do or how … Read more
Google updated their Page Experience Documentation in order to make it explicitly clear that Core Web Vitals are used by their ranking systems. What’s curious about the change is that Google continues to not say that Core Web Vitals are a ranking factor. Googlers And Statements About Ranking Factors Something kind of weird about Googlers … Read more
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