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Google Announces AMP Stories and AMP for Gmail

February 13th and 14th saw Google’s second annual AMP conference taking place in Amsterdam, or AMPsterdam as they termed it. As you’d expect with a Google conference, the two-day schedule was packed with updates from Google’s own team, including Rudy Galfi, who is product management lead for the entire AMP Project. What is AMP If…

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Google Expected to Roll Out Mobile-First Index in Q1 of 2018

UPDATE: Google announced on the 26th March that the mobile-first index has now begun to roll out. Read the latest here In the increasingly mobile-first search world, it is no surprise that Google is adapting to the changing behaviours of its users. In recent years we’ve seen two specific algorithm updates focused on mobile friendliness,…

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The Periodic Table of SEO Ranking Factors from SMX Advanced 2016

After a plentiful breakfast and a couple of cups of Seattle’s finest coffee, SMX Advanced kicked off a session titled ‘The periodic table of SEO ranking factors’ delivered by three highly respected and well known faces of the SEO industry. Marcus Tober @marcustober – Searchmetrics Searchmetric’s Marcus Tober opened the SEO track with a session…

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‘Ask Me Anything’ With Google’s Gary Illyes at SMX Advanced – Seattle 2016

  Day one of SMX advanced concluded with an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) session with Google’s Webmaster Trends Analyst, Gary Illyes. Gary has become something of a lightening rod for SEOs over the past couple of years and is frequently subjected to grillings from the SEO industry on the changes and updates Google is making…

Google Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Introduced to Search Results Pages

Just last month my newly acquired mother in law proudly showed off to me her first ever smartphone. Hardly a momentous moment for most people but for Barbara this was a big deal. She was, until this point, the person least interested in mobile phone technology I had ever come across. In fact she kept…

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Google Removes Ads from Right Hand Side And Introduces A Fourth Advert Above The Organic Results

So they’re at it again. With a swipe of their mighty finger search giant Google has once again put the search industry into a spin with its latest update to the search results pages. On Friday the 19th February 2016, Google removed the ads from the right hand side of search results pages. This change…