The stories about Ranking & Algorithms from this period, ranked by likely impact on a single site.
Ranked by estimated impact on a single site, not by publication time.
Search engine patents occasionally circulate widely in SEO discussions, often accompanied by bold claims about newly "discovered" ranking factors. Understanding what patents actually represent —…
Ranking & Algorithms
Not every page on a site needs to be — or should be — indexed and competing for search visibility. Understanding when strategic noindexing genuinely helps versus when it's unnecessary or…
Ranking & Algorithms Crawling & Indexing
Not every SEO improvement requires a months-long content strategy. Some fixes take an hour or less and produce a measurable lift. Here are ten you can realistically knock out today.
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Meta descriptions don't directly influence rankings, but they're one of the most direct levers you have over click-through rate — and click-through rate, in turn, meaningfully affects how much…
Ranking & Algorithms Measurement
Negative SEO refers to deliberate attempts by a third party to harm a competitor's rankings through manipulative tactics aimed at their site, rather than improving one's own. It's less common than…
Ranking & Algorithms
Assembled from our own archive of 551 stories, which currently runs from 4 October 2023. Ranking is by the impact score described on the front page — an estimate of how much a story is likely to affect one website, not a measure of how much attention it got.
The archive only holds what it has seen. Periods before it started are empty rather than quiet, and it gets more complete every week it runs.
