Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Google has added new issue types to the rich results reports within Google Search Console. Specifically Google added product, Sitelink Searchbox, and unparsable types to this report. Google said “the ability to report on these issues is new; the issu…

Google recently posted a new help document around JavaScript and SEO. Google received some early feedback from the SEO community around the doc and as of this morning has updated the doc to address those questions and concerns.

This is probably super obvious to most of you but this may be the first time I’ve heard Google comment about this. Amazon has this Alexa rank feature, they had it since like 1996, a super long time. Google’s John Mueller was asked if Google uses it fo…

Google’s John Mueller was asked about why a site saw a major dropping in image search traffic after embedding Instagram images on his site. John decided to test it and noticed that Instagram on the embeds use a no index robots meta tag, that tells Goo…

Google’s John Mueller said in that video hangout at the 39:51 mark that Google does try to recognize “additional details about information about the author, information about the reviewers, about the website overall, through through a number of ways.”
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As you know, Google pushed out Chrome 76 Tuesday, July 30, 2019 – or 9 days ago. The evergreen GoogleBot is still running Chrome 75. But Martin Splitt from Google said GoogleBot will be on 76 “very soon” and with that, also the tools will support Chr…

Google’s John Mueller said in a video hangout this morning at the 1 hour, 5 minute mark, that when you link using images, make sure those images at least have some alt text on them. He said this would “to kind of give us the anchor text” for that link….

Some may speculate that Google doesn’t just index a URL and the content on that URL as a whole, but may index parts of a page independently. That is not true, Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter “We don’t index parts of a page independently, we index…

We knew it was coming soon and now it is here, Google just announced that most of the testing tools now support the new evergreen GoogleBot. We have been waiting for this for a couple months since Google launched the evergreen GoogleBot for crawling a…

Google is now sending some Google Search Console profiles a monthly performance report via email. The email shares the clicks, impressions and pages with first impressions for your site. It also dives into more details like your best content pages, an…

Back in May, three months ago, Google released the evergreen GoogleBot. Basically GoogleBot is on the same version as your version of Chrome, which gives Google more capabilities to crawl and access your web pages. But the tools, tools within Google …

John Mueller from Google said that the Google search team is very strict with Google’s internal SEO team. He said on Reddit “I imagine the SEO team at Google has a pretty hard time comparatively, given how strictly we separate the rest of search from t…

Martin Splitt from Google asked the SEO community what they want to see on the Google Search Developer docs that is not currently there. Martin wrote “if you could ask me to explain something about Google Search that isn’t on developers.google.com/sea…

Google’s John Mueller said in a Reddit thread that Google does not use word count as a ranking factor. He wrote “Word count is not a ranking factor.” I mean, this is literally short and to the point and I am not sure how many ways you can look at thi…

We’ve been hearing for a while that Google may be adding voice search filters to the Google Search Console reports. This would enable you to see how people discover your site using voice and Google Assistant, differently than they would by typing in se…

This probably does not come as a surprise to most of you who read this site, but Google confirmed yesterday that your inclusion in the Google Discover feed can be impacted by Google’s core ranking updates updates. Google said in yesterday’s core update…

Yesterday, Google also confirmed that in late February, it launched a new algorithm aimed at making sure the featured snippets show the most accurate and timely or fresh answers for the query. Pandu Nayak from Google said “a new algorithm update impro…

Dan Shure posted on his podcast his audio notes from after a private dinner with Gary Illyes of Google from April 4th 2017. Basically, they had a dinner, after the dinner when Dan got into his car, he took audio notes of what he remembered from that d…

Yesterday we reported that the Google quality raters guidelines URL was not returning the PDF document, it was 404ing. Well, Google said it moved and as of this morning, some of the URLs hosting that PDF have been redirected to the new destination.
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You’ve got to love John Mueller from Google, he posted on Twitter the line “There’s no such thing as LSI keywords — anyone who’s telling you otherwise is mistaken, sorry.” Here is that tweet: