Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Google’s John Mueller said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that making quality links is against their Google webmaster guidelines. He said “if *you’re* making quality links to your site, then that would be considered against our webmaster guidelines,…

Google has released the documentation around dynamic rendering. This was first announced back in May of this year and about five months later, SEOs and Webmasters now have something detailed and comprehensive to reference if they want to implement dyn…

An SEO said they had to kill off a site because after Google Panda had its way with it, it wasn’t earning enough money to maintain it. Now that site owner is asking if he can bring the site back to life and if Google will treat it any differently.
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Google has recently added to the Google Search Console an event markup report and also recently started sending out notices to those with issues with their event markup to check out the report. Aaron Bradley, the guru on schema, said the report was ne…

There are some savvy SEOs and webmasters that are noticing a possible bug with the Search Analytics reports in Google Search Console. This is specifically when you use the page filter option, the numbers significantly drop both in the Google Search Co…

As part of the blitz of new announcements from Google this past Monday, Google also introduced what they call the Topic Layer in the Knowledge Graph. With that, they can also dynamically categorize knowledge panels based on sub-categories and topics t…

Google’s John Mueller answered a question on Reddit about a site using dual languages, multiple languages in a single title tag for a single page. John said it is preferable to use one language and be clear and consistent with that title tag for that s…

Google’s John Mueller said in a video hangout on Friday that changing your structured data format from microdata to JSON-LD would not lead to many of your pages being removed from the Google index. He said this in response to a complaint about this.
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Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter he doesn’t believe there is a limit to the number of meta tags Google has on a per page basis. He said, as far as he knows, there is “no limit to the number of meta tags we pick up.”

I know there were tons of sites that got notifications that their sites migrated to the mobile-first indexing process this week. But Google is far from done. Google said currently sites being migrated are pretty equivalent on the desktop compared to m…

Starting earlier this week, Google began sending out tons of mobile-first indexing notices to webmasters. In fact, as I write this, I received a few more notices foe web sites I have verified in Google Search Console.

In that CNBC article, Google told them that in 2017 Google ran 31,584 side-by-side experiments with its raters and subsequently launched 2,453 search changes. Of course, the “2,453 search changes” can be small design tweaks and such. Google does not …

Google’s John Mueller has said on Reddit that it is better to build a site where you know how Google and search engines will treat it then build a site where you are unsure. There isn’t always a need to get fancy with your code to the point where you …

A funny question came up in a Reddit thread, and I am in the mood for funny right now. The question was, can you hypnotize someone to get links to your web site and if you do, is it against Google’s webmaster guidelines? The funny thing is also that J…

So here we have Google’s Gary Illyes again defending what Google has said in the past, when SEOs say what he said is not true. This is around Google giving full weight to content on mobile within accordions or tabs. Some reports say Google does not do…

Since 2010 we knew that using Google Translate or other automatic machine translation services to convert content from one language to another and to rank it in Google was against Google’s guidelines. But recently some are saying with Google Translate…

As you know, when GDPR, the European law about data privacy regulations across the web, went live – some sites simply decided to block any European visitor from visiting their web site. This results in some searchers seeing content from these sites bu…

Google has been caught buying or paying for links before but doesn’t always take action against themselves when caught. Google’s John Mueller just talked about giving charity and getting a link and then shortly after Tad showed how Google Canada donat…

Back in March, Google tested showing zero search results with just the answer for specific queries for about ten days. Google was caught testing it again yesterday but Google said it was just a glitch and was not the zero results feature from back in …

Google’s John Mueller said in a webmaster hangout video that Google can show either the original published date or the last modified date of URL in their search results snippets. He said they are flexible about these dates and if the content substantia…