Google to Stop Unofficial Autocomplete API

Google will block access to its autocomplete API to unauthorised users starting from 10 August 2015. When asked about the move, Google explained: "We built autocomplete as a complement to Search, and never intended that it would exist disconnected from

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Gearing up for Google’s Mobile SEO Update on the 21st April 2015

Are you ready for the Google Mobile-friendly algorithm change which could be 'bigger than Panda or Penguin'? Back in November 2014,  Google gave its first guidance about the impending algorithm changes to affect mobile SEO which were summarised in this

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Rolling out the mobile-friendly update

As we noted earlier this year, today’s the day we begin globally rolling out our mobile-friendly update. We’re boosting the ranking of mobile-friendly pages on mobile search results. Now searchers can more easily find high-quality and relevant results where text is

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Google Local Search Results Shifting After Google Maps Bomb Fix?

Google seems to have made an update to their local search ranking factors, where many local SEO experts and reporters are noticing major shifts in the local results. Days after Google apologized for the Google Maps Googlebomb racist results, it

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Becoming Better SEO Scientists - Whiteboard Friday

Like many other areas of marketing, SEO incorporates elements of science. It becomes problematic for everyone, though, when theories that haven't been the subject of real scientific rigor are passed off as proven facts. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Stone Temple

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