Each Google Core Updates Can Affect Search Rankings Differently

Google’s Martin Splitt, Gary Illyes, and Lizzi Sassman sat together on the latest Search Off the Record to talk about de-SEOing – what we would probably call over-optimization strategies. It is an interesting listen to, stuff you probably heard before but it is interesting to hear Googlers who are intimate with how Google Search works tackle this issue on their own site.

Apple has finally announced its new music streaming service, Apple Music CD Baby has covered the news about Apple Music’s launch from a few angles already, including: * a basic description of Apple Music’s streaming service, * some thoughts on what effect Apple Music may have on the music industry at large, * and how you can claim and customize your Apple Music artist page in order to promote your music and control your branding on the streaming service. But there are a few other important […]

Yesterday morning, Google fixed the validate fix button and rolled out the more simplified coverage report statuses. With that, Google also added a way to filter the report by resubmitted pages and a new source column.