Recently at PubCon, Google’s Gary Illyes advised that you should include “no hashtags in URLs” for the sake of rankings, but it’s a bit nuanced. You can read more about how hashtags are handled on this post from Search Engine Roundtable. So Gary Illyes indeed said you shouldn’t include hashtags in your URLs, and he […]
DigitalCast Episode 030 – Why you should learn JavaScript to help with SEO
Three years ago Matt Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress, advised developers to “learn JavaScript deeply”, and it’s proven be to solid advice. Now Google is suggesting the same thing if you want to stay on top of the search engines. You can read more about Matt Mullenweg’s “Learn JavaScript Deeply” here, or read the full […]
DigitalCast Episode 029 – Does Google use real-life user signals to assist with rankings?
There’s been some thought that since Google knows a good bit about real-life user activity, such as when stores are busy, they might use that data to affect search rankings. At least for now, that doesn’t seem to be the case. Read more thoughts on this topic over on this post from Search Engine Roundtable. […]
DigitalCast Episode 028 – Search ranking changes are unrelated to Google’s new mobile-first indexing
Google has been making a lot of algorithm changes lately, but they seem to be (and should be) unrelated to the mobile-first indexing. Read more about how mobile-first indexing could affect your site in this article on Search Engine Roundtable. Over the past few months, Google’s been pushing hard to get their new mobile-first index […]