The following timeline highlights what I believe to be the most important announcements of changes to the Google Algorithm since 2011 up until Penguin 2.0. All of these announcements and details are directly from Google themselves or Matt Cutts (one of the their leading engineers). All items on the timeline are algorithm changes, rather than just listing changes in search functionality (structured data is the odd one out as it’s both). Agree? Disagree? That’s what comments are for…..
Author: Daniel Rowles
Search engines and Large Language Models (LLMs) no longer just read text, they parse content to look for data. Schema Markup (JSON-LD) is the vocabulary you use to explicitly tell Google and LLMs your content and product details.
Traditional SEO was about proving relevance to a search algorithm to rank a link. AEO is different - it's about training an AI to understand your brand as a credible "Entity" so it cites you as the answer.
In this episode we dive into one of the most significant shifts in digital marketing: the rise of non keyword signals and what it means for search, privacy, and the future of targeting.