There are multiple reasons why a site can drop in rankings due to a core algorithm update. The reasons may reflect specific ...

We may be seeing the start of a Google Search ranking algorithm update, as I am starting to see volatility spiking in the Google Search results and a spike in chatter within the SEO community. I know ...

Imad is a senior reporter covering Google and internet culture. Hailing from Texas, Imad started his journalism career in 2013 and has amassed bylines with The New York Times, The Washington Post, ...

I am really trying not to cover the Google search ranking volatility and not report on another Google search ranking update but today things got super heated again. And don't get me wrong, the Google ...

An internal Google document leak reveals the secrets to ranking in Google Search. Credit: Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images The key to online success is usually dependent on one major factor ...

Many of the ranking factors involved in Google Search’s super-secret algorithm have purportedly leaked. This leak sheds light on how Google Search seemingly operates and which attributes it uses to ...

It’s frustrating. You put time, energy, and a lot of hope into a webpage. But it just won’t rank. Your competitors’ pages are ranking well, even though (subjectively) they’re worse. Yours deserves to ...

A hot potato: Google releases new updates for its search algorithms all the time. One of those latest "tweaks" has, however, made publishers and site owners worry more about AI, with low quality ...

Google will give priority to sites in organic page ranking that encrypt pages, content. Zineb Ait Bahajji and Gary Illyes, Google webmaster trends analysts, described the change in a post. In the ...

A Google engineer’s redacted testimony published online by the U.S. Justice Department offers a look inside Google’s ranking systems, offering an idea about Google’s quality scores and introduces a ...

Google recently updated its local search ranking algorithm to strengthen its “openness” signal for non-navigational queries. “We’ve long used ‘openness’ as part of our local ranking systems, and it ...