Author Archives: RANJAN TRUPTI

It is somewhat satisfying to see non-SEOs dig deeper into how search is changing at Google and Bing and to hear the concerns they have about these changes. We covered your concerns as SEOs and publishers a week ago but now the big publishers are voicing their concerns around AI-search and what it means forContinueContinue reading “Big Publishers Concerned With AI Powered Search From Google & Bing”

I believe Google changed the sitemaps-related search developer documentation last week. I am not sure if any of the content specifically changed, but Google did rename some of the pages and create new pages, maybe to consolidate the content and make it easier to understand and access.Google also added a new section named combining sitemapContinueContinue reading “Google Reorganizes Sitemaps Documentation”

Gary Illyes from Google is back and this time he said that those “Checking if the site connection is secure” interstitials you see on some sites, some of the time, is the “last search-friendly things you can do.”This is a feature that CloudFlare, and other CDNs have, to help prevent spammy bots from hurting yourContinueContinue reading “Google: Checking If The Site Connection Is Secure CDN Interstitials Are Not Search Engine Friendly”

Here we go again; yet another Google search ranking algorithm update seems to have touched down on February 14th, maybe as early as February 13th, and seems to be continuing to shake things up throughout today. We previously covered unconfirmed updates on the 8th/9th and also the 4th.I am seeing an increase in chatter startingContinueContinue reading “Another Unconfirmed Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update Around February 14th”

Google’s John Mueller said he thinks, and he said he might be wrong, that the final mobile-first indexing batch will be done in the next couple of months. Desktop indexing is not going away, and it will be used for “a tiny number of sites,” John added on Twitter. This process started over six yearsContinueContinue reading “Google: Mobile-First Indexing Transition Might Be Completed In A Couple Months”