Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Both RankRanger and Moz are reporting large reductions in how often the people also ask box shows up in Google search. RankRanger shows a 12 point drop and Moz is showing a 6 point drop (they measure these differently).

There is a site out there claiming that Google has given it some sort of AI ranking contract. Thus this company has an advantage in helping you rank higher in Google. It does not, John Mueller of Google said on Twitter “They don’t. This is likely jus…

So I have been looking for more documentation and details on how to implement and request inclusion for the 3d and AR based images in Google search. Well, thanks to the AMA I did yesterday, someone shared a link I should have seen with more details.
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Big news yesterday, but we saw it coming, was that Google announced all sites are going to be moved over to mobile-first indexing by September 2020. Google is sending out notices about this, Google started doing that last week. But Google also said t…

Gary Illyes from Google wrote in a Reddit thread that “generally” your hreflang annotations are not processed or picked up until all the pages in the set that you are linking to are crawled and re-indexed. He wrote “Generally the hreflang annotations a…

So you have myolddomain.com and you are moving to mynewdomain.com, do you need to renew the security certificate for the domain myolddomain.com if you are just going to be redirecting it to mynewdomain.com. The answer is probably yes, not necessarily …

John Mueller of Google had to tell one SEO that it is not going to happen, Google is not going to index all of the pages on his web site. The site has over 800,000 pages and Google has only indexed 3,000 of those pages. John told this webmaster “They’…

Google’s John Mueller confirmed that from an SEO point of view, linking to an HTTP URL, instead of an HTTPS URL is fine. Google won’t penalize or downgrade your site if you link externally to a non-secure page. Of course, from a user point of view li…

We are all still trying to figure out if Google took any action with the nofollow link attribute change on March 1, 2020 or not. It seems the answer is not. John Mueller said in a Google webmaster hangout at the 17:22 mark that this is a policy chang…

Danny Sullivan of Google said on Twitter “There are a variety of things we do to watch for Wikipedia vandalism. That’s about as specific as I can really get into. It’s not perfect, as nothing is, but there are protections in place.” This was in respons…

Google posted a new video on how to hire an SEO. This video, I assume, will replace the one Google posted in 2017 done by former Googler Maile Ohye. Here are the two videos.

John Mueller from Google was asked if Google does anything special for Shopify, since it is such a popular e-commerce platform. John responded “We generally don’t have special search algorithms to help any particular CMS.” He added “I don’t think mas…

Google’s John Mueller was asked about premium indexing on Twitter and he responded “There’s no “premium” indexing on Google’s side.”

Let’s say you have a large site and you have FAQs throughout the site. Sometimes you might decide to answer the same question in multiple FAQ pages just because it is useful for that user reading that specific FAQ page. Well, if you do, don’t you dar…

Google’s John Mueller was asked for tips and advice around getting a blog with thousands of pages deeply indexed. He was asked if he has any pagination tips. John responded “Use categories or tags to cross link so that you have a handful paginated pages per type, from where you link to the blog posts. Keep a good & balanced hierarchy, not too flat, not too deep.”

Every now and again you hear these SEO myths that just surprise me. Here is one, where someone was told that the placement of the company logo in a design impacts SEO. The feedback the designer got was that placing the logo in the middle of the head …

Google has added another Google Home Hub and smart display feature to the Google rich results test. You can now see a preview of your how-to rich results in the tool. Here is a screen shot from Google via Twitter.

John Mueller of Google said on Twitter that he wouldn’t lose sleep over others scraping your copyrighted content. He said “there’s a lot of scraped content out there which has minimal visibility, it’s not always worth losing sleep over it.”

So the big nofollow link attribute change is coming March 1st, which is this Sunday. But it seems like we shouldn’t really see anything happen on March 1st, at least based on how Gary Illyes and John Mueller of Google are both saying we shouldn’t see a…

Google is sending out notifications for mobile-first indexing issues detected on your site. And in that notification it says “Google expects to apply mobile-first indexing to all websites in the next six to twelve months.” Yes, probably by the end of…