Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Google live streamed the almost 5 hours of their new Webmaster Conferences. Below is a recording of the Google Webmaster Conferences in Kolkata, India.

Google in 2018 launched the product label for e-commerce sites using product schema in their image search results. But now, some are seeing these product tags in the web search results where Google includes an image carousel.

Brian Freiesleben spotted Google possibly testing a new knowledge panel feature. The feature asks the searcher to enter in missing fact data it doesn’t seem to have access to. Google asked “help others by suggesting these missing facts” and had a but…

With all the E-A-T discussion, a lot of SEOs are into building up the authority of the authors that write on their sites. But what if your authors don’t want their names out there? Asaf Bernstein asked John Mueller of Google about using the authors …

Google added a discover report to Google Search Console back in April. But the only way for you to see that report, as we said back then, was to have enough data (impressions/clicks) within the Google Discover feed for Google to report it within Searc…

Back in April we reported about issues with recipe rich results in Google. This was an issue that recipe sites started to lose their rich results and cards in masses. Well, back on June 28th, 2+ months after the issue, Google seems to have mostly fixe…

A former Google engineer named Jonathan Tang who worked at Google on search between 2009 and 2014 said Google hasn’t used PageRank since 2006. He said this in a Hacker News thread yesterday.

Google is showing the people also search for query expander feature below some featured snippet results. This was first spotted a week ago, which we didn’t specifically mentioned but had a screen shot in our more images in featured snippets story. Bu…

We knew this was coming, and now Google said it is going to launch soon, the #AskGoogleWebmasters video series by John Mueller of Google. A couple of months ago, John Mueller asked SEOs to submit questions to him using the #AskGoogleWebmasters hashtag…

The other day we reported how Google is looking for ways to move the URL parameter tool from the old Google Search Console to the new version. Well, he said it again in this mornings IRL video hangout. In fact, he said it is really used a lot and Goo…

John Mueller of Google posted on Twitter asking “How do you feel about “mega-menus” on ecommerce sites?” He then followed up saying there is “no secret announcement lined up” around Google penalizing e-commerce sites with mega-menus.

Google’s John Mueller said it is best to be consistent with your URL structure and either choose to use slashes after the URL or not to use slashes after the URL. Try not to use both formats if possible.

Dejan posted a Twitter poll the other day and it received almost 600 responses from within the SEO community. The question was “Good UX impacts rankings.” The responses available were “directly,” “indirectly,” or “neither.”

The SEO community is buzzing about how Google seems to have removed Bing’s Discover section from the Google search results index. Edd Wilson tweeted about it on July 4th and then several sites picked it up. Bing Discover is a portal on Bing.com that …

If you open Google Search Console and go to a property that has been switched to mobile-first indexing, you will get an alert slide up from the bottom right of the screen notifying you of the switch. Even if the switch happened several months ago and …

Google’s John Mueller had to come on Twitter and once again dispel the myth that the age of a domain name does not matter in terms of Google’s ranking algorithms. New or old domains can rank well and it doesn’t help your site rank to register your dom…

I am highlighting this twitter exchange because it down right confuses me. Kenichi Suzuki, a well seasoned SEO, asked John Mueller if a site that was well prepared for mobile-first indexing has not moved over yet, should you be concerned? John said t…

Google’s John Mueller hinted this morning that no additional legacy Google Search Console features will be turned off. He said “If we thought it wasn’t important, we would have turned it off already.” That kind of implies that the remaining features …

Martin Splitt had a chat with his colleague at Google Dion Almaer the Director of Web Development Ecosystem about SEO and the future of the web. It was an interesting high level chat that talked about PWA/desktop site/AMP, tools, web components and vir…

John Mueller from Google posted on Twitter just a couple of minutes ago “Uh oh, Gary has a new idea…” So maybe something new is coming from Google that SEOs might not like or maybe John is just messing with the SEO community or maybe it is both?
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