Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Elon Musk, the co-founder of PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX and the list goes on and on, said on Twitter that it is hard to go to Google and find Tesla’s solar roof panels. He said “Unfortunately, it’s hard to google Tesla solar links due to tons of ads & SEO.”

Google said in its Google Webmaster Twitter account that diminishing traffic of a backlink does not lower the value of that backlink in the eyes of Google. That was the question and Google said no, it does not lower the value of that link in terms of …

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that he believes using the nofollow link attribute for internal PageRank sculpting is a waste of time. He said “I think it’s a waste of time to do that.”

Google announced this morning that it will stop indexing content within Adobe Flash files, SWF files, this year. Google said “Google Search will stop supporting Flash later this year. In Web pages that contain Flash content, Google Search will ignore …

Google has officially deprecated the corporate contact markup for knowledge panels. Lizzi Harvey from Google posted about it on Twitter, she said “Corporate Contact markup for Google knowledge panels is deprecated. If you’re verified as an official rep…

Google’s John Mueller said merging one site into another is not the same thing as a site moving from one domain to another. You should not use the change of address tool when doing a site merge, it should only be used when moving a site fully to a new …

Back in July Google fixed a bug with recipe rich results but that bug may be resurfacing according to Lisa Bryan, a food blogger. She said starting around October 15th her site, and others, started to see the images of their recipes disappear from Goog…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that if you automatically translate your content from one language to another, using automated translation services, it likely will not lead to a Google penalty or manual action. He did add that the content might …

Google’s John Mueller asked if a 404 page was noindexed, would that make it drop out of the Google index. John Mueller said no, he said “No. If we crawl and see a 404 or a noindex, it’s all the same.”

Several weeks ago we saw Google testing “in this video” timelines, which they announced later as “key moments” in video. Well, Google may now be rolling it out for more videos than just a test group.

Lily Ray posted a Twitter poll some time ago asking about Google’s disavow link tool. The responses to the question shows that SEOs have serious doubt in how effective and useful the disavow link tool is.

John Mueller of Google said it is okay to whitelist specific IP addresses if you do not want GoogleBot to access that content yet. That is not a form of cloaking and not against Google’s guidelines.

Google is adding another new series to the Google Webmaster YouTube Channel, this one is named Search for Beginners. “An animated series is coming soon, and we’re supporting multi-language learning with subtitles. Learn the basics of creating an onlin…

John Mueller of Google said on Twitter that submitted search spam reports on Twitter is not a great thing to do. He said on Twitter “You’re welcome to submit a spam report if you feel that these aren’t being treated appropriately — Twitter generally i…

When you disavow a link, any and all associations with that link to your page are removed. I kind of thought that was obvious, but John did field a question related to it the other day. He confirmed the associations with the link are removed when you…

Over the weekend, John Mueller of Google had an interesting back and forth with an SEO about a redirect. In short, it seems someone took an old domain, redirected that domain to a new domain, with completely different content on the new domain. The SE…

Lizzi Harvey from Google posted an update to the video structured data page at Google. Now Google is recommending you use the interactionStatistic instead of interactionCount. Google will support both for some time, but if you are using interactionCou…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that when a manual action is removed, the site is immediately free of any manual actions. But, sometimes it can take time for search to process the manual action. He said however, the effects of that might take a b…

Google posted a reminder or PSA yesterday that adding structured data can sometimes help Google automatically generate Actions for the Google Assistant. Google posted this on Twitter and said “Google can use your structured data to automatically genera…

Google’s John Mueller had a fun analogy when it comes to buying used domains and the potential issues they may have. He said it is like buying a used car.