Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

John Mueller of Google was asked by Michael Lewittes if those news websites you see overlay those call to actions asking you to sign up for their newsletter before seeing the content see harm in their Google rankings because of those actions. And yes, …

Google has added updated its product structured data documentation document to include details around price drop enhancements. There is a new section named “price drop” that explains that Google “automatically calculates the price drop.”

With the release of Chrome 88, you can now see Core Web Vitals data in the developer tools performance recording section. The lane currently displays Web Vitals information such as First Contentful Paint (FCP), Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) and Layou…

There are some interesting complaints that Google is ranking medical and health related sites well for non-medical queries. The theory here is that since the Medic Update Google has given some sites more authority to not just rank for the site’s expert…

I believe this is a temporary change but Google has updated the job training rich results structured data documentation to say “this appearance isn’t available on Google Search right now.” The job training experience on Google Search is designed to he…

To be clear, none of this is exactly new, but John Mueller of Google took the time to explain how mobile-first indexing works with mobile-first indexing. Most sites have been switched over to mobile-first indexing but if you have not, then here is wha…

Google has noted that it has updated the already updated Crawl Stats report to handle “additional types of crawls.” Google wrote “the crawl stats report has increased its reporting coverage for additional types of crawls.”

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that it is best to implement your structured data on the page itself and not use Google Tag Manager to implement your structured data. He said the reason is because it makes it “straight-forward & usually easier to monitor/maintain.”

Google’s John Mueller said that there is no specific timeframe for when an out of stock product page on your e-commerce site will end up resulting in a soft 404 in Google Search. A soft 404 is when Google thinks a page should return a 404 server status…

Just a PSA, when Google rolled out the update for the coverage report last week, it also fixed the validate fix issue from December 16, 2020. This is when Google posted the “issue validation is temporarily disabled due to upcoming changes in the report…

John Mueller of Google was asked the following question, “if I dofollow backlinks due to paying bloggers to write highly relevant review articles or paying for high-quality PR news articles, are they paid links that go against Google’s guidelines?” Jo…

There is a difference between what you see at Schema.org and what Google publishes at its Google Search developer documents for structured data rich results. The short difference is that what Google publishes is what you can potentially see surface in…

Two months ago Google launched the new disavow link tool, a tool Google says you really do not need, but relaunched it anyway in the new Google Search Console. Now, Google is sunsetting the old tool in just a few days from now.

Looks like the folks at Google are doing an email marketing push to Search Console properties that have not yet verified the property through the domain property method. Google is sending out different flavors of emails, some pitching you can see all …

It seems like Google is now showing multiple referring pages for some URLs in the URL Inspection Tool within Google Search Console. Amy @amy91485 noticed it and Glenn Gabe thinks it is new as well. I spotted up to four different referring pages in thi…

We previously covered John Mueller of Google say that “links are between indexed URLs, so if one side is gone, the link is ignored.” So if page A links to page B and one of those pages are noindexed, then it sounds like Google won’t count the link. But…

Last night Google began sending notifications via Google Search Console about HTTP/2 crawling. If Google has started to crawl your site over HTTP/2, Google will send you this notification. Just a heads up, this process began in a limited way in Septe…

A while back, John Mueller and Gary Illyes from Google reacted to a tweet around selling domain names based on their “SEO footprint.” Meaning, it has a lot of perceived SEO value (links and authority) based on third-party tools. And the domain name b…

Google has launched a brand new performance report just for Google News publishers within Google Search Console. Only Google News publishers should be able to see it, like only those who get Google Discover traffic can see the Discover performance rep…

If you are too focused on one specific area of your website, you can be missing out on other areas that need your attention. Being too laser focused, in any area, can cause you to lose sight of the larger picture and can end up hurting you in the long…