Dan Petrovic, Author at DEJAN

Another Massive Google Update: 16th January 2016

We thought the 9th of January was big, then Google surprised us with the core algorithm update on the 10th, but today… today is something we’ve never seen before. Algoroo is in red again, but now at nearly 4 roos.…

Major Google Update is in Progress

Zineb Ait has confirmed this update is not related to Penguin. “It is simply one of frequent quality updates.”, she said on Twitter. John Mueller blessed her tweet with a “like”.

@RaphSEO @seof1 @korleon38 @abondance_com en effet. Il ne s’agit

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Today is the Biggest Google Update Since June 2015

Update: The following day was even more active pushing Algoroo into red. This is now considered a major update with impact greater than Penguin 3.

Algoroo is showing a very active day in Google’s search results today. At 2.45 …

Test Update: Hidden Content

If a piece of content really important don’t hide it in any way on your page. Display it clearly visible for both users and search engines.

Key items:

Don’t hide important content using mechanisms such as tabs and accordions
If

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Here’s the Best Attention-Grabbing SERP Exploit Ever!

I’ll keep this one short. When placed in meta description or page content, this character ฏ๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎ (also this one ค้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้) does really weird things with Google’s search results. We tested the character in the page title too but Google …

Negative Impact of 301 Redirects

Redirecting four of our popular blog posts to a commercial page lowered its rankings in Google.

Redirected posts:

Target page:

https://dejanseo.com.au/brisbane/

Type of redirect: 301
Search term: SEO Brisbane
Scope: Same Domain

Initial Results

301 redirects …

User Behaviour Data as a Ranking Signal

Note: This article was first published on Moz Blog. This version does not use hypotext functionality and will be used to test the performance of hidden content in Google’s search.

Question: How does a search engine interpret user …

TLD is not a ranking factor, says Google.

There’s no inherent ranking benefit at all.

John Mueller has just published a new Q&A post called Google’s handling of new top level domains ^[+] addressing common questions and misconceptions around gTLDs.

With the coming of many new generic top

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