Google Ranking And Indexing Become Focus Of Search Trial by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, October 19, 2023 Pandu Nayak, a vice president for search at Google, testified Wednesday about Google’s efforts to index the web, eliminate irrelevant pages and rank websites in order to answer user queries from sources that are E-A-T — otherwise … Continue reading Google Ranking And Indexing Become Focus Of Search Trial
Google Releases Dashboard To Report Status Of Search For Crawling, Indexing, Serving by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, December 14, 2022 Google made two announcements on Wednesday in its Search Central Blog. One introduced a dashboard tool for users to understand the most current status of systems that impact Search — crawling, indexing, and serving. The other … Continue reading Google Releases Dashboard To Report Status Of Search For Crawling, Indexing, Serving
Google Search Outage Causes Issues With Quality And Indexing by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, August 9, 2022 Google Search briefly experienced complications from a nearby electrical fire that lead to longer page-load times, errors, and empty search results. An electrical fire at a Google data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa, injuring three electricians working on a substation … Continue reading Google Search Outage Causes Issues With Quality And Indexing
Google Confirms Content Indexing Issues In Search by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, July 15, 2022 Google has confirmed issues with indexing new content and displaying that content in Google Search. Users need only do a search on the keyword “Google” — setting the tools criteria to the past hour — to identify the issue, which started … Continue reading Google Confirms Content Indexing Issues In Search
Jock Breitwieser August 17, 2021 DiggityMarketing / Pixabay Before Google, there was Ask Jeeves – the well-dressed, always smiling gentleman who was always ready to answer your most pressing questions. Back then, the knowledge about search engines was still in its infancy stage. People treated it as a party trick, and they would ask the … Continue reading How Do Search Engines Work? Crawling, Indexing, and Ranking
Pam Aungst June 14, 2021 As part of Google’s continued efforts to make the internet more mobile-friendly, they’ve been incorporating mobile-first indexing into their ranking process. So, if you want your website to rank higher on search engine results pages (SERPs), it will need to be optimized for mobile Google search. The institution of this … Continue reading What You Need to Know About Google Mobile-First Indexing
Kerry Dye — January 23, 2020 If you’re wondering whether your website has been moved over to mobile-first indexing yet, there are two easy ways you can check this. Use the URL Inspection Tool in Google Search Console Check for Google Search Console notification emails Ideally, you’ll want access to the Google Search Console (GSC) … Continue reading How to Tell if Mobile-First Indexing is Enabled
Google: Mobile-First Indexing Becomes Default For New Domains by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, May 28, 2019 All new websites that were previously unknown to Google Search will be indexed using the company’s mobile-first indexing method starting on July 1, the company announced Tuesday. For new websites, this indexing feature will become enabled by default, so there … Continue reading Google: Mobile-First Indexing Becomes Default For New Domains
Marya Belanger — March 11, 2019 — March 11, 2019 At the end of 2018, Google announced they now use Mobile First Indexing (MFI) for more than half of their search results worldwide. The changes have been in the works since 2016 due to significant increases in the amount of users searching Google from mobile … Continue reading Google Switched to Mobile First Indexing – What it Means for 2019 SEO
Getting conflicting information about whether the mobile-first indexing change will impact your rankings? Brush up on the different processes behind search results. Janet Driscoll Miller on September 27, 2018 Mobile-first indexing has been the talk of 2018 in the SEO world, and certainly this major shift in how Google search works has left SEOs … Continue reading Mobile-first indexing: Will it change your rankings on desktop?
