Loren Baker

Google Changes, Updates & More The Brackets Update – Analysis and Findings From The March 7, 2018 Google Algorithm Update (and March 14 Tremor) I promised I wouldn’t but I just gave it a name. 🙂 Actually, it’s based on a tweet from Marie Haynes saying, “It’s March Madness!” after I posted screenshots of the […]

Google Changes, Updates & More Google’s forced SSL search page, encrypted.google.com, is shutting down Back in 2010, Google launched encrypted.google.com, a search page that supported SSL encryption. There were a few other privacy features as well, like limited query info for advertisements, but SSL was the main improvement. In October 2011, the main Google site […]

Google Changes, Updates & More Google My Business Has Updated Local Photos Help Article Google posted on Twitter the other day that they have updated the help document for the Google My Business photos page. The content did change and I have a before and after for you below. New Manual Crawl Limits in Google […]

Google Changes, Updates & More Google Algorithm Update Brewing? Depends Who You Ask. Over the past couple days or so, the ongoing WebmasterWorld thread has some folks passionately yelling there was a massive update, while some are saying it looks all static and fine from their point of view. Most of those in the WebmasterWorld […]

Google Changes, Updates & More Search outpaced social for referral traffic last year, driving 35% of site visits vs social’s 26% share of visits After a year fraught with terms like “fake news,” and headlines centering around brand safety issues and extreme content, it appears the actions taken by social sites to curb the influx […]

Google Changes, 2018 Trends & More AMP Stories: The new Accelerated Mobile Pages format from Google Does this doubling down on the mobile framework by adding the new, heavily visual and interactive format signal a more aggressive push toward AMP-only websites? Related Entity Scores in Knowledge Based Searches Google patents using related entity scores to […]