Google’s Helpful Content & Link Spam Updates Done Rolling Out On January 12th

Here is a bizarre question that was asked on the Google office hours video asking if Google rotates its index. The question kind of makes sense, because the SEO who asked said on one day they see their page indexed, the next it is gone, then it comes back – is there an index rotation?

Think about this for a moment: almost 40% of the world’s population, over 2.96 billion people, consider themselves gamers. Since the dawn of Atari in the 1970s, the industry has boomed—it’s now larger than the movie and music industries combined—and is expected to be worth $321 billion by 2026. As video game technology has grown more sophisticated, so has the average gamer. Once primarily marketed to kids, especially males, the demographic is shifting, and up to 45% of gamers are female, with a median age of […]

In December, Google told us they would move its structured data testing tool from Google’s site to the Schema.org domain. Well, now, the Schema.org markup validator is now live, in beta at validator.schema.org.