Free Post SEO SEO Update #3: agency death, Yandex growth and MOAR carousels A quick pre-Christmas round-up of the latest search news.
Free Post SEO New Google update aims to prioritise original reporting over rapid writethroughs Big news from Google: it's tweaked its algorithms to prioritise original reporting - and to display it for longer.
Free Post accuracy Google put speed ahead of accuracy three years ago - and we're all paying the price Here we go. Following on from my last post, it seems that Google has been including non-Google News posts in the “In the News” box for three years: Google has
Free Post AMPs Google's Top Stories algorithm is failing to detect authoritative sources This is a pretty significant Google algorithm fail: Also, apparently Google is putting 4chan threads in their top story unit now? So, the number one hit for his name is
Free Post first click free Google tightening up First Click Free Google is making changes to its “first click free” system: In 2009, we updated the FCF policy to allow a limit of five articles per day, in order to protect
Free Post games Gamification the dumb…err…Google way Beautiful summary: Google News US has launched collectable badges for reading news stories. This is stupid. Mary has provided plenty of more detailed reasons why it’s stupid, too. Another example of Google jumping on a social bandwagon without really understanding it?
Free Post BBC How Boris Johnson gets his news From his column in The Telegraph**, in which he explains why he barely noticed the BBC journalists’ strike: I consume vast quantities of news – but almost entirely without the assistance of the BBC. I get up early and read a fair quantity of newsprint,
Free Post fact-checking Fact-checking, Wikipedia and basic journalistic credibility When I was in my early 20s, and working in my first proper journalism job, my features editor and boss at the time, Andy, took me for a pint. But he didn’t take me to the usual pub, he took me to one
