Top SEO News, 2017
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Google will keep in secret the number of search quality algorithmsOct 08/2017 How many search quality algorithms does Google use? This question was put to the John Mueller, the company’s employee during the last video conference with webmasters. |
Gary Illyes shares his point of view on how important referential audit isOct 08/2017 At the Brighton SEO event that took place last week, Google rep called Gary Illyes shared his opinion about the importance of auditing the website's link profile. This information was reported by Jennifer Slagg in the TheSEMPost blog. |
Googlebot still refuses to scan HTTP/2Oct 08/2017 During the last video conference with webmasters Google rep called John Mueller said that Googlebot still refrains to scan HTTP. |
Google does not check all spam reports in manual modeOct 08/2017 Google employee named John Mueller stated that the search team does not check all spam reports manually during the last video conference with webmasters. |
Google Image Search loses market share to Amazon and FacebookAug 14/2017The share of Google in the search market grew from 58.84% in October last year to 64.8% in March 2017. At the same time, the share of Google Image Search fell to 21.8% in favor of Amazon and Facebook. This information has come from analysts of the American company Jumpshot in partnership with co-founder Moz Rand Fishkin. |
Google keeps ignoring the Last-Modified meta tagAug 14/2017Google still ignores the Last-Modified meta tag in the search. This was stated by the company’s employee, John Mueller providing a response to a question from one of the webmasters on Twitter. |
The Italian authorities fines WhatsApp for $ 3 million eurosJuly 11/2017The Italian Antimonopoly Authority fined WhatsApp service developers for 3 million euros. This information was reported reported by Reuters. |
Google intends to improve the interaction of a person with AIJuly 25/2017Google announced the launch of a new research project, which goal is to study and improve the interaction between artificial intelligence (AI) and human beings. The phenomenon was named PAIR. |
How Google processes pages with the Canonical and noindex attributesAug 14/2017During the last video conference with webmasters, John Mueller answered the interesting question: how does the search engine process pages that both contain the Canonical and Noindex attribute? |
Google adds tags for recipes, videos and products in the image searchAug 03/2017Google added tags for recipes, videos, products and GIF to the image search results. Now when searching for images, users will immediately see which type of content the individual results are related to. |