Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

You know I just reported yesterday that Google’s John Mueller confirmed that the AJAX crawling scheme has really been deprecated. The same day, Gary Illyes from Google in one of his slides at PubCon said “no # in URLs” and said on stage “do not use ha…

Google’s Gary Illyes said at PubCon that they are able to fully render 98% or more of the web pages they crawl. With that he also added rendering takes longer than normal crawling and indexing. He said it can take days to a few weeks to fully render …

Another debate came up based on what Google’s Gary Illyes said at PubCon and what Google’s John Mueller said previously. Gary Illyes said GoogleBot is not able to scroll down your page, whereas John Mueller said GoogleBot can scroll a bit.

Google has been deprecating, killing off support for, their old AJAX crawling scheme since 2015. It has been dying a slow death but now Google’s John Mueller has said on Twitter is has been fully deprecated.

Google may have a new web crawler that specifically looks for Favicons, the little icons you see in your browser bar next to the URL. Favicons are associated with a particular website or web page and can be customized by the site owner.

Google’s John Mueller said that most Google Search algorithm updates will have an impact on every site, even if the site did not see any ranking changes. John said on Twitter “our algorithms generally affect all sites in the search results, though not…

Here is some advice from Google’s John Mueller on Reddit. He said, “my go to answer for these kind of questions is if it’s not documented it could change over time.” The question was on how Google treats 301 versus 308 redirects.

You know those browser requests you get where it says this website wants to know your location and makes you click block or allow? Well, GoogleBot, Google’s crawler ignores them.

I guess Google is sick of me asking them about their search algorithm updates because they posted a long Twitter rant/stream on how they communicate updates. Danny Sullivan on the @searchliaison account posted when and why they communicate about updat…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that they treat the content within quotes and blockquotes the same as other standard content on the page. So if you are quoting someone else, putting that in quotation marks or blockquotes, Google won’t be devalui…

So you name your company Best Company, so for SEO companies, you go with the name “Best SEO.” Should Google rank your web site number one in the search results for the query [best SEO]? Probably not and that is what John Mueller of Google is saying h…

Let’s put the controversy around Google using user signals and user behavior within a site on the side. Does Google use real-life user behavior and real-life user signals as ranking factors? Like does Google track location data and rank a site that g…

Google has said this before, but it is worth repeating, that an increase in crawl rates may be a sign that you are switching over to mobile-first indexing. John Mueller repeated it again on Twitter the other day and below are some stats to show you wh…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that all the search ranking algorithm changes we have been following, some confirmed, are “not related to mobile indexing.” Some are thinking that all the fluctuations are due to Google ramping up the mobile-first…

Google’s John Mueller responded on Twitter saying that word counts, anchor texts to word rations, number of backlinks, number of external links, the percentage of anchor text and so on is not “indicative of quality.” Here is the tweet and John’s respo…

Google’s John Mueller talked about the frustration some may feel when you write a breaking story about a topic no one has covered yet other web sites are outranking you for that story, even though these other web sites link to you as the source. John …

Last week we reported that Google’s John Mueller said that the concept of making quality links is by definition against Google’s guidelines because you are making those links and they are not links that were naturally given by the party. Since then th…

For months and months I get complaints that the Google Cache is serving up a 404 error for their web sites. They are nervous and worried that this means there is an issue with their site and their web site rankings in Google will dive. It won’t dive …

Google is now showing Google Search Console statistics and a brief dashboard directly in the search results when you are the verified owner of the site and your site comes up in the search results. The dashboard shows you clicks, impression and averag…

Google’s John Mueller posted a PSA yesterday on Twitter saying that with the mobile first indexing rolling out, that if you have app interstitials and if those are taking up all your content, then that is what Google will see. He said you are are robo…