62,666
edits
Changes
no edit summary
| 2016 || March–June || {{w|SEO contest}} || "Apex Forum SEO Contest 2016. Winner Scott Paxton. The keyword was "Club Penguin Walkthrough". Contest began on March 25th and went through June 22nd. There were lots of prizes totaling $8,684.04 for the winner with $1,000 in cash, $2,859.80 in prizes for second including $250 cash, and $1,769.80 in prizes for third including $100 cash."<ref name="Previous SEO Competitions"/>
|-
| 2016 || August || || "It wasn’t the last of Google’s mobile updates -- in August 2016, it announced Google announces a crackdown on mobile pop-ups."<ref name="A Brief History of Search & SEO"/>
|-
| 2017 || January || || "For instance, {{w|Google introduced }} introduces an algorithmic change called the “Intrusive Interstitial Penalty” in January, 2017, in order to “punish aggressive interstitials and pop-ups that might damage the mobile user experience.”"<ref name="tellmeyourgoal.coms"/>
|-
| 2017 || March || || "As recently as March 2017, Google made one of these changes: this update is informally known as “Fred” (no formal name has yet been given). It is reported that “Fred” has already had a major impact on the SEO community"<ref name="tellmeyourgoal.coms"/>
| 2018 || July || || "Google announced that from July 2018 page speed will be a ranking factor for mobile searches."<ref name="A brief history of Search Engine Optimization (SEO)"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Using page speed in mobile search ranking |url=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2018/01/using-page-speed-in-mobile-search.html |website=webmasters.googleblog.com |accessdate=7 January 2020}}</ref>
|-
| 2020 || || || "Comscore predicts that by 2020 this year, 50% all searches will be voice."<ref name="A brief history of Search Engine Optimization (SEO)"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Stat of the week – Voice Search |url=https://blog.zooma.se/en/blog/stat-of-the-week-voice-search |website=blog.zooma.se |accessdate=7 January 2020}}</ref>
|-
|}
