Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

An SEO, I believe his name is Alexander, asked John Mueller of Google in this morning’s video hangout if Google is aware of a trick some sites are using to combat any negative impact from the August 1st medic update. John was unaware and confused by t…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that you can use the site command to check individual pages and see if they are indexed. Generally Google tells SEOs not to depend on the site command but with the URL inspection tool and other Search Console issue…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that when it comes to Google’s search algorithms they try to go as granular as possible. But in the older days, the older Google updates may have been broader, he said.

Again, at the BirghtonSEO conference, John Mueller was asked about how do they know if they are doing a good job with making publishers happy. Do they have metrics to determine if they are doing a good job. John Mueller said they do look to make publ…

We knew this was coming and at the AMP Conference in Tokyo, Google announced support for publishers to use their own URLs when serving AMP pages in Google search. This is powered through signed exchanges and supported with more modern browsers.
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Google said yesterday they are aware of an indexing bug impacting a limited number of publishers and they are working to fix it. It seems like the fix has been rolling out, although Google has yet to confirm this issue has been resolved yet.

Back in December we reported that Google updated their link schemes guidelines to disallow “requiring a link as part of a Terms of Service, contract, or similar arrangement” to link to you with a do-follow. The topic came back up when SEO personality …

It seems like the past month or so has been a tough one for the Google engineers. We have seen bug after bug, many we haven’t even covered yet over here. The question is, are they related and when will most of them be resolved. Of course, one thing …

The Google de-indexing bug, which took about 6 days to resolve and is supposedly resolved as of last Thursday is now causing issues within Google Search Console. The coverage and enhancement reports, as well as the URL Inspection tool are all impacted…

As you know, Google is making efforts to update their GoogleBot to crawl the more modern web. We reported it about it last week. But that bothered at least one SEO who complained that they worked on all these workarounds and now Google is going to di…

Cyrus Shepard posted a poll on Twitter asking SEOs what is better to do when pruning old content, to 301 redirect or 404 the page. That is if the page cannot be updated to have better content, what do you do? Either (a) Noindex/Remove (noindex, 404, 4…

Martin Splitt from Google posted yet another wonderful technical SEO video on making Vue.js, web apps built in Vue, search engine friendly. It goes through making the titles, descriptions and URLs more discoverable by Googlebot when built in Vue.
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There are many SEOs complaining that the cache date shown by Google is very outdated. Heck the date shown for this site is April 2nd, which is a 10 days ago. But Google’s John Mueller is telling SEO’s not to worry about it.

Just not long ago, we quoted Martin Splitt of Google saying he knows when Google will release an updated and more modern version of GoogleBot so it can render JavaScript and the modern web better but he won’t say when. Now the folks at DeepCrawl caugh…

The same day Google launched the new Discover performance report in Google Search Console, Google announced they also now let you see your AMP Stories traffic. I have not seen any examples of AMP Stories showing up in these reports, so I cannot share a…

As you know, we were the first to report the large de-indexing bug where Google was dropping pages out of their index starting as early as a week ago today. Well, last night, after about 6 days of the issue, Google said it has now been fully resolved.
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One thing SEOs were asking Google for for some time now is a report in Google Search Console that tells you about your traffic from Google Discover. Now we have such a report and it is pretty cool to see this new data.

We have positions one through ten in Google, the main search results. We have position zero, the featured snippets. Heck, we even have zero results where Google just shows the answer. Now we have position minus one or screen -1 as Google’s Malte Ubl c…

In February, Google announced that they would be consolidating the data in the performance report to the canonical. Meaning the AMP, mobile, etc will all be counted towards the main URL’s data in the performance report. This was live in two different …

Google’s John Mueller said it would be better to offer personalization to users through dynamically tweaking the content on the page versus redirecting that user to a different page with personalized content on that page.