Google Removes PageRank from Toolbar, Facebook Instant Articles Plug-in, AMP, and more

Air Date: March 10, 2016

New WordPress Plugin Facebook Instant Articles as Facebook announced that Instant Articles will be available to all publishers on April 12, 2016. To increase the number of publishers getting on board with Instant Articles, they have announced their own WordPress plugin to make articles Instant Articles friendly.

Instant Articles is similar to AMP in that it creates an extremely mobile friendly version of a page or article that loads up to 10 times faster. Like the AMP plugin, the Instant Articles plugin will make articles that load faster, right within Facebook, rather than the publisher site.

This plugin makes it incredibly easy for publishers to come on board with Instant Articles, if they wish to use it. While there is full documentation, for those without a coding background, the plugin is an easy solution.

Plus Jim Hedger and Dave Davies discuss a query posed to fellow SEO Alan Bleiweiss that asks,

“Is there a way to allow Google to index our entire site, and have it show in organic results, EXCEPT for a specific geographic location? The exclusion is not content specific. I’d like the option to block a site from showing up in a certain metro area (say Phoenix) or even state (say Arizona).”

Also:

• Google from Google toolbar
• Google all official blogs to Googleblog.com from Blogspot

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Jim Hedger is an organic SEO and digital marketing specialist. Jim has been involved in the online marketing industry since 1998 and a SEO since 1999. Best known as a broadcaster, interviewer, content writer and search industry commentator, Jim is a frequent conference speaker and organizer. He hosts the search focused radio show Webcology on WebmasterRadio.FM and is a WebmasterRadio.FM conference interviewer. Jim brings a wealth of knowledge, experience, passion and creative thinking to each project. Preferring a teamwork approach, Jim strives to inform and train his clients and their staff to run and maintain their own search and social media efforts.

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