SEO Audit category in Lighthouse Chrome extension
With the new SEO Audit category, webmasters and developers can now run a basic SEO health-check for their pages and find out more about the pages' performance.
Updates
Tag: Google
Chrome HTTPS Warnings
With the release of new Chrome 62, Google starts warning users visiting unsecured forms. Even though the update might not seem substantial, it can have a big impact on some websites' traffic. Simply put, it's yet another step that Google took to push websites owners towards HTTPS.
Unconfirmed update
After a relatively calm time, the algorithm trackers noted a rising flux between the 25th and 27th of September, with a peak temperature on the 27th of September.
There was no official confirmation of an update.
Google Jobs launch
From now on Google will start showing job listings previews from all the major job search sites like LinkedIn, CareerBuilder and Glassdoor, when queries with clear job-searching intent will be detected.
MozCast tracked a big, multi-day spike
MozCast along with some other tools was able to track a big, multi-day spike that started on May 17th 2017. Prior the date a long period of high algorithmic flux was noticed, that may not have settled down for months.
Unconfirmed "Fred"
Google did a large update with deep impact on SEO. We have seen big changes in the page rankings all over our clients sites.
New, unconfirmed Google ranking update ‘Fred’ shakes the SEO world
Source: Search engine land
Status: Supported by SiteAttention SEO plug-in
Phantom Major Update
Major changes in Algorithms over a week. We have seen drops from no. 1 - 27 on Google.
February 7th Google Algorithm Update Was Big
Source: Search engine roundtable
Status: Supported by SiteAttention SEO plug-in
Unnamed Major Update
The 1st. of February we saw a lot of change in pageranking. It looks like minimum two algorithm updates.
Unconfirmed Google algorithm update may be better at discounting links and spam
Source: Search engine land
Status: Supported by SiteAttention SEO plug-in
Intrusive Interstitial Penalty
Google has implemented a penalty on aggressive interstitials and pop-ups that might damage the mobile user experience. The impact is a minor one.
Google warns it will crack down on “intrusive interstitials” in January
source: Search engine land
Status: Supported by SiteAttention SEO plug-in
Unconfirmed Update
Strong flux between 14-16 December 2016. Google did not confirm any update though.
You can read more about it here.