Rank Ranger Blog

With Bing's latest search update you can search using emojis and get the results you're looking for. As mobile devices become a permanent attachment to our lives, emoji have become an everyday form of communication from text messages to social media posts. Bing realizes the importance of this language and therefore have included this functionality into their search engine. 

Google Webmaster Guidelines have been updated with instructions to allow Googlebot to access Javascript, CSS and image files for optimal search results.

Have you noticed a major drop in rankings for sites that host pirated content or violate copyright laws? We've learned that Google has rolled out a new Pirate Update, similar in behavior to the one they pushed out more than 2 years ago with the goal of helping copyright owners fight pirates.

Are you one of the many webmasters and SEO professionals who have been anxiously anticipating the arrival of the latest Google Penguin Update?  Google has confirmed that they rolled out the Penguin 3.0 update on Friday and our Rank Risk Index accurately reported major Google SERP fluctuations.

Reports that you’ve created in the Rank Ranger SEO platform can be shared with others for viewing in your branded web interface. Learn how easy it is to create a custom White Label Portal for clients, colleagues or managers who prefer a more hands-on interactive experience.

The launch of our Keyword Suggestion tool last week rounds out a suite of time-saving research tools that we hope will help improve your search engine optimization efforts.

Continuing our White Label video series, this tutorial shows how easy it can be to create a cover page template that can be re-used for multiple white label PDF reports.

In September John Mueller announced that a Penguin Update would most likely happen before the end of 2014. This meant that we needed to monitor our Rank Risk Index more closely, and it paid off. Take a look at this weekend's activity...

Learn the answer to this question:
"What's the easiest way for us to measure keyword rank performance over the course of our online marketing and SEO efforts for the sites that we manage?" 

Panda 4.1 is set to improve the algorithm by identifying low-quality content with better precision, resulting in greater diversity of high-quality sites in search results.

Nearly 20 years ago, the Yahoo Directory was born. With a hand-compiled list of websites, it was something revolutionary for its time, and was certainly the industry leader for a number of years. The only site to overtake Yahoo! has been Google. Yahoo's announcement reflects the end of the web directory era.

Google's constant upgrading of search results has gained a new addition, the Structured Snippet. This is an addition to regular results, giving more information that is relevant to the query. The information comes from the knowledge graph and is shown within the search result snippet.