{"id":424,"date":"2017-04-12T15:29:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T15:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seosolutions.us\/blog\/?p=424"},"modified":"2017-04-12T15:37:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T15:37:20","slug":"takeaways-from-ask-me-anything-google-search-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/takeaways-from-ask-me-anything-google-search-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Takeaways From the Ask Me Anything with Google Search at the SMX West Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

It always attracts a lot of attention when Googlers are up on stage and open for questioning.The Ask Me Anything (AMA) with Google Search at the recent SMX West conference was no exception. The panel was moderated by Danny Sullivan and featured two prominent Googlers: Gary Illyes (Webmaster Trends Analyst) and Mariya Moeva (Webmaster Outreach Specialist).<\/p>\n

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Here are the Top Takeaways from the Ask Me Anything with Google Search at the SMX West conference.<\/h2>\n
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  1. The Mobile-First index will be launched after a month or two. Make sure to have your
    \nwebsite mobile friendly by the time is launched.<\/li>\n
  2. Google has confirmed that Mobile page speed will be a ranking factor when the
    \nmobile first index will be launched. The desktop signals will get replaced by it.<\/li>\n
  3. Google does have an individual Page\/URL authority.<\/li>\n
  4. Google has ended “Authorship” feature for once and for all. It is no more a ranking
    \nfactor.<\/li>\n
  5. Quality content is the key to getting your website featured into the featured snippets. Also, it should be well structured & relevant.<\/li>\n
  6. For the knowledge graph, Google still prefers Wikidata entities and the CIA World
    \nFactbook. There is no way to get in the knowledge graph. It’s algorithmic. Anything that
    \ngets in requires multiple sources of data to support the need for it to be in there.<\/li>\n
  7. There is no specific percent of 404s that can hurt your rankings. But we still prefer
    \nresolving these issues for a better user experience.<\/li>\n
  8. The quality of content matters the most. There\u2019s no need to unnecessary expand the
    \nlength of the content. Just provide answers to user questions and that\u2019s it!<\/li>\n
  9. Google tries it\u2019s level best to eliminate bad links, but it is not enough, so we encourage
    \nyou to keep disavowing bad links.<\/li>\n
  10. It was clear that the \u201cFred\u201d update was a quality update, however, you will have to refer
    \nto     Google\u2019s Webmaster Guidelines<\/a> to know the specific details. It is not disclosed as an
    \nupdate, so you have to notice the changes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    It always attracts a lot of attention when Googlers are up on stage and open for questioning.The Ask Me Anything (AMA) with Google Search at the recent SMX West conference was no exception. The panel was moderated by Danny Sullivan and featured two prominent Googlers: Gary Illyes (Webmaster Trends Analyst) and Mariya Moeva (Webmaster Outreach […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}