Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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:

Several months ago, the disavow backlinks help document in Google’s help center mentioned a section about PageRank and how PageRank is one of 200 signals Google uses for rankings. That help document was updated sometime in the past several months and r…

If you try to access the Google Quality Raters Guidelines PDF document, you will be out of luck. The PDF seems to have been removed from Google’s servers. This happened before and when that happened it was a mistake, Google fixed it. This time, I su…

Google is now sending out notices to those webmasters who have a noindex directive in their robots.txt file. Google Search Console is sending out notices that they should be removed because it is not something Google will support after September 1, 20…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter, – whatever – you can use either the inch sign when saying something is 10″ or you can can write it out and say something is 10 inches. It doesn’t matter, Google doesn’t prefer either option.

Google’s John Mueller’s first #AskGoogleWebmasters launched Friday afternoon and was on the question of does linking to other websites help or hurt SEO? The whole video, with the intro and ending was less than two minutes – so these short clips are ni…

Google’s John Mueller was asked if Google counts the first link on a page at the same level as the second link on a page. This is a topic that goes back over ten years in the SEO debate space. In any event, John ignored that question and then went on …

We knew this has been coming for some time but Google’s John Mueller just published the teaser video yesterday that it is coming “this week.” Well, it was published yesterday, Thursday, and the week is over soon – so maybe they mean early next week?
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Google said as part of its swipe to visit in image search feature that they are adding a new performance report view. Google said it is adding “AMP on image result” filter to the performance report within Google Search Console.

A couple weeks ago, Martin Splitt from Google announced on Twitter that he and Lizzi Harvey from Google posted a new developer document on the basics of JavaScript and SEO. The guide describes how Google Search processes JavaScript and the best practi…

Google’s John Mueller said Google will ignore redirect loops for search because redirect loops are broken. A redirect loop is when you have page A point to page B as a redirect and then you also have page B point page A. So you have them both redirect…

You wouldn’t think the content you find on YouTube, in the description section of a video, would be high quality enough for Google to use for featured snippets in search. But you’d be wrong. Google can and does use YouTube descriptions for featured sn…

I am seeing numerous reports from publishers that Google is having issues indexing Google News publishers and other sites. Most sites don’t seem to be having an issue but there are reports of many publishers having issues. Google said they are going …

One of the questions I hear a lot is how does Google know if a web site is something that a user/searcher will like if it doesn’t look directly at user behavior signals. So I asked John Mueller of Google if he was a search algorithm, what specific sig…

I asked John Mueller of Google yesterday if we can have an update on anything new coming from the Google Search Console team. He wouldn’t give specifics but he did say the team is “working on a lot of stuff” and we should see stuff happening soon. He s…

Google’s John Mueller talked about YMYL, specific to the health space, and mentioned that it is if you are writing about a topic on health that you are not an expert on then you are starting off already on a “shaky foundation.”

I doubt these are new but hey, here is a person knowledge panel that uses Google Scholar as the profile link and also lists the citations and h-indexes. It also lists the publications and books this author produced.

If you ask any SEO, changing URLs is a scary thing. If you can avoid it, most SEOs say try to avoid it. John Mueller of Google said on Twitter the other day “I’d really recommend keeping the same URLs for the long run.”

Once again the Google webmaster hangouts hosted by John Mueller and other Googlers has to move to another platform. This time it is moving from YouTube Live Hangouts on Air to GSuite Hangouts Meet. I suspect that means it will be more of a manual proc…

Ari Roth from Five Blocks showed us how he was able to claim the knowledge graph profile of the American theatrical producer Ari Roth. In short, this is an issue with whomever at Google is manually reviewing this verification request of not doing thei…