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Yesterday (as I covered at SEL), Gary Illyes from Google said at PubCon that Google will be rolling in more web sites into the mobile first index starting over the next several weeks. Google first began moving some sites into the mobile first index last October but said it was a very limited number of sites that were in that batch. Google promised, if your site is not ready it won’t be moved yet. Well, now the next batch is coming and eventually your site might be next. So make sure to read the Google tipsand my post on what you need to know as…

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This past month, Google announced the Page Speed update, a new ranking algorithm designed to lower the ranking of mobile pages that are really slow. Google also may have released a few unconfirmed algorithmic updates to core search. Google released the beta Google Search Console to all, which gave us 16 months of data. A new PageSpeed Insights tool came out with some interesting new ways to report on speed as well. Google promised to have a solution to show the publisher URLs for AMPpages in the coming future. Google also opened up a new Twitter account named @searchliaison to help people understand why Google…

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Every now and then I see people post screen shots of Google search ads that look suspicious because (a) they are irrelevant to the query and (b) kind of hidden and hard to see. More recently, I’ve been seeing more and more examples of these in the forums and on social media. They most often come because there is malware or some sort of extension on your browser, hijacking the Google search results, to show forms of adware or malware instead of Google’s real ads. John Mueller from Google responded…

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CNBC reports that Google is looking to get advertisers to create how to content and videos to be used as voice responses for Google Assistant and Google Home queries. CNC wrote “Google has been pitching companies to create videos for a new “How To” feature for its smart assistant. It plans to show the feature at its annual conference for software developers in May, according to a person who’s seen the pitch.” The “how to” skill would provide videos with step-by-step instructions when a user asks how to do something.…

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GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, is a gigantic arrangement for most organizations, regardless of whether they know it or not. To put it plainly, it is the new controls and security and security directions that organizations need to take to ensure EU resident information, regardless of whether the business isn’t situated in the EU. Google toward the end of last week messaged their accomplices, including AdSense distributers, Admob sponsors and numerous others, about “your duties regarding making revelations to, and getting assents from, end clients of your destinations and applications…

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Allyson Wright from Google announced in the Google My Business Help forums a small but useful feature for those heavily working in Google My Business. There is a new “clear” button in the attributes section to allow you to more efficiently manage the business attributes you are working with. Allyson said previously managing these attributes were “tedious” and “rather than being forced to select ‘yes’ or ‘no’ for attributes offered by your business, the ‘clear’ option allows you to clear any value you previously provided for that attribute.” The attribute…

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