Category Archives: Digital Marketing

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”

Famed YouTuber and excellent tech reviewer, Marques Brownlee, posted a poll on Twitter to his 6 million followers asking would you rather use Google as it exists now or Bing with ChatGPT added. The poll had over 320,000 submissions and about 59% said they would rather use Google now.Here is that poll on Twitter:This justContinueContinue reading “59% Of Searchers Don’t Get The Importance Of AI In Search”

Google is testing a “trending” label in the people also ask box in the mobile search results. I guess it shows trending searches in the category of what other people are asking about that query.I cannot replicate this but Vijay Chauhan spotted this and posted a videocast of this on Twitter. Here is a screenshotContinueContinue reading “Google People Also Ask “Trending” Label”