Google published a detailed explainer about how changes to search rankings are evaluated internally before being rolled out to users. Danny Sullivan, Google's Public Liaison for Search, goes over the role of search quality raters and how their…

Search Engine Roundtable – Barry Schwartz – Aug 5, 2020, 4:52 AM

The other day I reported that Google said negative reviews on the web about your brand or business won't hurt your rankings in Google search. Yesterday, I was on the video call with John Mueller and I asked him this question and brought up the…

Last month was not that slow of a month, while we didn't have any confirmed Google search algorithm updates, we had several unconfirmed ones and some felt pretty big. Google also said it will weight business names lessin its local search ranking…

I have covered Google saying that its quality raters, which are third-party consultants who are not even employed by Google directly, do not have any direct influence in Google search rankings. I reported Googlers saying this countless times and I…

I had a few reports yesterday of Google displaying featured snippets but without borders. It seems like a bug to me but who knows, maybe Google is testing borderless featured snippets and search results? Here is a screen shot of a featured snippet…