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How to Improve Local Search Rankings, RankBrain News as RankBrain does not impact either Crawling or Algos. Plus, we hearQuestions from the Community to Ross Dunn and John Carcutt in thisGoogle-filled as usual episode. Ross and Johndiscuss plans to increase the impact of the mobile friendly ranking algorithm, future consolidation of www vs non-www (and https) versions in Google Search Console, plus more news and questions from our awesome community.

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It was a busy week in news with Google finally removing the majority of referral SPAM from Google Analytics, we discussed manual action penalties from Penguin and fake interstitials, and possible changes to Google Search Console. Whats more, John and Ross turn the show into an interstitial drinking game!

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A New Google Guideline Testing Tool, Conversational Shopping and SEO Questions from Listeners as John Carcutt and Ross Dunn feature some of the early news from SMX West such as conversational shopping, AMP, and user generated Google SPAM reports. Conversational search has become a huge part of how users are searching Google, particularly with the way […]

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Google AdWords Sidebar Change Update , plus learn about an Opportunity of a Lifetime for an SEO.

AMP Results Now Live in Search asGoogle began pushing out AMP results late on February 22, 2016, rolling out across mobile devices in their news carousels. Ross Dunn and John Carcutt discuss how to decide if you need an AMP version of your site.





Google Allows Only 10 Submit URLs & Direct-Links Crawls Per Month as Google has changed the limits on submissions via the submit this URL and its direct-linked pages;AMP Not a Search Ranking Signal Yet;Sites Can Have Different Crawl Frequency on a Per URL Basis

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Rich Snippets may depend on quality of other pages in your SERP. So if your page is not getting a Rich Snippet, it may be because of the other pages in the SERP not anything you have or have not done. WTF is “Social Engineering Content”?
It can get you a manual action notification.

They recently made it so sites with deceptive advertising – such as “download button ads” which are designed to confuse site visitors, would now be flagged as deceptive. AMP support in webmaster help forums and AMP demo/testing tools now available from Google. Facebook Instant articles now available to all publishers. New HrefLang errors in search console.

 

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Google head of search announces retirement. Amit Singhal will be succeeded by John Giannandrea, who leads the company's artificial intelligence research. Brands can now Edit their Knowledge Graph Data.You must be an Official Representative for the brand (just through a couple of hoops)They happen fast once you make the suggestions according the Barry.Google Crawl Rate increases not related to Algo update.Google link operator dead/in zombie mode

Local reviews NOT a Ranking factor for organic rankings.Knowledge graph clicks not counted in Google search console.France wants to Ban linking to a site without its permission. AGAIN.Structured markup spam due to WordPress plugins.Google sending out manual action notifications based on usage of a Recipe Plugin. Some that have been possible culprits areWP-Ultimate Recipe,Ziplist,Yummly, andEasyRecipe Plus.Manual action based on spammy structured markup.AMP error test tool now in Google Search Console.

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AlphaGo Concurs Go using machine learning, the number of moves in Go are roughly equal to a google more than all those in chess.An interesting example of a timely SEO win in politics.Carly Fiorina was the only GOP candidate to use the freely available card carousel (announcement of feature from Google) in Google Search results. This resulted in blanket Fiorina exposure across many GOP debate related searches.Also Google steps up structured data support over the year, outbound links are not a ranking factor, andGoogles detection of negative SEO.

 

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Big Google Update! But it's Not Penguin 4.0, not Panda (though Panda now part of the Core Algo),Brand Term related (big impact on News Sites).It is apparent that many loser domains are classic print publishers and their losses in rankings mainly stem from older content pieces. Additional publisher who lost rankings are newyorker.com, vanityfair.com, arstechnica.com, fastcompany.com and economist.com.Take weather reports with MANY grains of salt..Google brings back the Google Dance. Also,Google may prevent sites from passing PageRank when links get bad..Google PageRank will never update again..

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How Does Google Handle Different Types of Duplicate Content?Created by Technical Issues? Ross Dunn and John Carcuttlearn the impact of duplicate URLs viaA Google Search Console Webmaster Tools help page. Google explains, "When Google detects duplicate content, such as the pages in the example above, a Google algorithm groups the duplicate URLs into one cluster and selects what the algorithm thinks is the best URL to represent the cluster in search results (for example, Google might select the URL with the most content). Google then tries to consolidate what we know about the URLs in the cluster, such as link popularity, to the one representative URL to ultimately improve the accuracy of its page ranking and results in Google Search.

 

 

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Learn all about changes to Google+ Local.. Google AMP may be coming to an SEO requirement near you, Penguin 4 may be here in January, and Yahoo may possibly be up for sale!  Also, its finally time for Star Wars!! Most important topic of the week !!!

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