Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Danny Sullivan from Google said on Twitter “Maybe we’ll eventually break out that type of data” when it comes to showing click-through rates on featured snippets. Google almost gave it to us, it was a beta filter that went away back in 2017 for some r…

Does having and creating Google Assistant Actions help you rank better in Google search for your web site in general? I never saw anyone ask this question until today and Danny Sullivan of Google said no, it does not help with your organic rankings or…

There has been an enormous amount of confusion around the Google featured snippet duplication change. In short, Google made the change, didn’t communicate the change was done until SEOs saw it live and Google, mostly Danny Sullivan, has been answering…

A senior writer at Forbes, shared some data on Twitter showing that Forbes.com has seen a huge and very concerning drop in traffic from Google organic search. He said traffic is “down circa 10x” starting January 27th at 11pm ET. He posted this on Twit…

Google’s John Mueller said it doesn’t hurt you to used mixed languages in your URLs but it might confuse users who look at your URLs. John was asked on Twitter “Mixing language in url path” is it bad? John said “I don’t see a problem with that.”
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Let’s say you have a large multilingual site and all your pages are translated into the localized language. So page A in the US has the same content as page X in France, but the content is translated into French on page X. The image however is generic…

It seems like Google may be having issues indexing and ranking Ikea’s international and localized web pages properly…

Google’s John Mueller said “no” it is not worth signing up for dofollow profile links. He said that in a Reddit thread where the user asked “Are dofollow profile sign ups worth it?” John responded with “no” and then walked away.

Google’s John Mueller said at the 9:43 mark into a Google hangout that for SEO purposes, links in PDF files are treated like links that have the nofollow attribute on them. But the weird thing is, Gary Illyes from Google in 2011 documented on the Goog…

Google has just launched a new tool within the new Google Search Console named the removals tool. This tool lets you temporarily block search results from your site, it shows reported via other Google public removal tools (i.e. Outdated content) and yo…

Bastian Grimm said he is now seeing the new GoogleBot useragent name being used for almost all crawling now. But some are still seeing Google use Chrome 41, not the latest version of Chrome as the useragent. John Mueller from Google said as of now, “t…

Google has updated some of the colors used in the Google Search Console reports, such as the performance report. The colors are now a blue, purple, green and orange. The old colors were a blue, light blue, green and purple.

Google should be moving, if they didn’t do it already, any right side of the Google search results page feature snippets from that position to the top position. This should have happened by now, but might still be rolling out. This comes to remove co…

Just to be clear, and honestly, I am surprised so many people do not know this, but the featured snippet change from the other day has no impact on the Google Search Console performance reports. That report only counts the top-most result anyway, so th…

Google announced yesterday that starting on April 6, 2020 it will no longer support data-vocabulary.org schema. Hours later, Google began sending notifications via Google Search Console about this happening. Here is an example from Peter Nikolow.
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With Google saying yesterday that they are deprecating support for data-vocabulary markup because of the “popularity of schema.org” – some would assume microformats is next. But John Mueller from Google said microformats are still supported and there…

John Mueller of Google said again, .gov TLDs, top level domain names, do not get a ranking boost or preference in Google search. Having a .gov, just because it is a .gov, does not directly help you rank better. However, a lot of .gov domain names hav…

Google’s John Mueller said on Reddit “A site is not going to outrank your site just because of hidden text.” He also added “Inversely, just having hidden text on a page won’t get the site banned from Google.”

Google has announced that it made “significant updates” to its developers documentation on mobile-first indexing. You can see the new docs over here and here is the cached version that is old (updated in October 2019).

Google has released a new video on how image search rankings work. John Mueller of Google answered how to rank images on Google and provided useful tips on the topic.