Google recently announced this expanded translated results Switched to additional languages in the search results, which was great to see. Also, it’s important to understand that the data is available in Google Search Console performance reports (and with some additional benefits, available via the API). I will explain more about this soon. But as I’ve […]
Google started enforcing it Abuse of website reputation Spam policy on May 7, 2024, after the policy was announced two months earlier (when the March 2024 core update was rolled out). At this point, we did not know whether enforcement would occur through manual action, an algorithm update, or a combination of both. Back then
Twiddlers are C++ code objects used in Google’s ranking algorithms that help Google reorder search results. They are used in a Google system called Superroot, Google’s ranking framework. I came across this Google Doc about Twiddlers from 2017 while reading Mario Fischer’s excellent breakdown of what we can learn about how the ranking works based
In May 2023, Google wrote a blog post explaining that it planned to update its systems Surface “hidden treasures”or content written from a “personal or professional perspective.” We were eagerly awaiting this update when the “case of crazy updates” hit, including three core updates, a major helpful content update, a spam update, and a reviews
Google has updated its documentation on its Spam guidelines. This latest spam policy update includes several changes that I thought were interesting enough to write about. 1. Search manipulation = spam Google added this at the beginning of their document: It’s no surprise that content designed to deceive users is spam, but this “or manipulating
To keep users on their sites, some publishers have hijacked the browser’s back button by providing an article feed that directs users to more publisher content, including sponsored content and ads. In contrast, they allow you to return to the websites from which you visited them. Disabling or hijacking the back button is a tricky