Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Google posted on the data anomalies page that due to an internal issue Search Console did not capture some image search statistics from June 5th through June 7th.

Google is testing bookings using Google Duplex, but I have yet to see how it looks as a user when they use Google search to book a reservation. Thibault Adda shared screen shots of this being tests on an Olive Garden in Florida.

Google’s John Mueller said Google does not give priority to a portal web site over a static web site in its search rankings. John Mueller from Google said on Twitter “No, portals are not prioritized,” when asked if Google favors portals.

Danny Sullivan from Google said on Twitter over the weekend that the Google core updates are not like the old or new Google Panda algorithms. He said “the core update isn’t like Panda of old (and no, it’s not like Panda of new, either).”

A month ago, Google launched their FAQ schema which essentially gave you a way to markup your FAQ content and Google would show those FAQs in the search results snippets. Well, as expected, it seems to result in less traffic to your web site. Which may…

Google’s next SEO mythbusting video is on the topic of web performance. The video is with Google’s Martin Splitt and Samsung’s Ada Rose Cannon. They talk about web performance and usability topics around mobile, rankings and much more.

In December 2017, Google told us to avoid using Google Tag Manager for SEO experiments or SEO solutions. In fact…

Danny Sullivan from Google said Google “probably will” pre-announce future Google core updates. He said this on Twitter when asked if Google will “be pre-announcing broad core updates again?”

Guess what – in 2019 – it turns out that links and title tags still matter to doing well in Google’s search results. We had John Mueller from Google said links matter for PageRank and thus building trust. Gary Illyes from Google say that HTML title t…

Google’s Pascal Birchler, who has been with Google since this past January, but worked at WordPress since 2014 prior to that, published a new project where Google and WordPress want to integrate basic XML Sitemaps in WordPress Core and introduce an XML…

Google updates the Search Console performance overview report to show a full 90-days of data for the search results and discover bars. Previously Google showed 28-days of data and now Google is showing 90-days of data for this overview dashboard.
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As part of Google deprecating the old Google Search Console APIs, Google won’t be supporting showing the indexed count within the sitemaps commands. Google’s John Mueller confirmed this on Twitter.

Google has actually said numerous times that spikes in crawl rates do not mean an algorithm update is coming. But before this Google June 2019 core update, I’ve seen some chatter of crawl declines and spikes of an update. So we asked John Mueller of …

Google has been talking about dynamic rendering as an option for Google to index the content on some of your JavaScript pages for over a year now. Some have been trying it and one person said he is having issues because it tends to take too long for t…

Google updated one of their documents on how to help people find your site on Google. In that document, they added a line that reads “Keep your site up to date: If your restaurant website hasn’t updated its menu since 1925, then update it; there aren’…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that when your root domain is moved over to mobile-first indexing, that means all your subdomains move with it. I suspect that this is the case for (a) sub-domains that are not like hosted WordPress sites that use…

Google’s Martin Splitt posted another SEO mythbusting video, this one on JavaScript and SEO. He did it with well-respected technical SEO Jamie Alberico. The video basically says JavaScript is not the devil ð.

Google’s Gary Illyes said that you should not ignore the HTTPS ranking signal. He said “the signal affects enough queries measurably that I wouldn’t ignore it.”

The other day we reported that John Mueller of Google said they won’t show content hidden within expandable divs or accordions as snippets in search. Yes, they will index and rank that content but not show it as snippets. But can this type of content …

Google’s John Mueller said that while Google will process your disavow link file immediately, it will take some time for Google to disavow the links within it. John said on Twitter “The files are processed immediately. The links are disavowed over tim…