Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Google is now recommending publishers add datePublished and dateModified to non-AMP Article pages. This may mean that Google might show non-AMP articles more in the top stories section?

Did you ever submit feedback to Google about a poor set of search results? Well, here is some insight into how Google looks at that feedback and what you should and should not say in such feedback.

Google has confirmed they are testing new snippets around showing FAQs, Q&As and How Tos. These are powered by new schema and Google should be opening an interest form for publishers soon.

Google is testing showing image icons in the related search box. They look like the expandable featured snippets but again, within the related search box.

Google launched datasets schema in the search results, which now enables them to show pretty charts and tables of data right in the Google snippets. I thought this launched a few years ago, more on that in the story.

Google has confirmed that when it comes to hreflang annotations, they support it for countries and not regions. Gary Illyes explains why Google doesn’t think it is a good thing to support this at the regional level.

Just because Google sets up a subfolder over a subdomain or uses a 302 redirect over a 301 redirect – it doesn’t mean Google made that decision for SEO reasons. So don’t just blindly follow what Google does.

Google hints at how having a web site and also being in the Amazon marketplace with the same products for sale can impact your site’s performance in Google search. Google wants to show diverse search results.

This is just a quick reminder that Google has confirmed again that the link operator no longer works in search and is no longer supported by Google. Google ended support a year and a half ago.

It looks like Google has fixed the issue with the Googlebomb around searching for idiot in image search results. Donald Trump no longer comes up as often as a week or two ago.

Recently I’ve been seeing more and more complaints about PDF spam showing up in Google search. Google asked that if you see these cases, to let them know so they can investigate.

Here is John Mueller from Google saying that if you have your content structure out of order, it won’t hurt you but having it in order can help you. This advice does seem a bit contradictory.

Early Thursday morning Google accidentally removed the PDF document containing the quality raters guidelines. By noon, Google has fixed the issue and the PDF has returned for download.

Yesterday I reported how Google suggested that some SEOs make up theories to suit their own agenda. So someone asked John Mueller of Google to debunk one of those theories in which John said debunking all the theories across the web is not a scalable …

Google’s fetch as Google tool in Search Console lets you do a lot of cool things but what happens with the fetch part works but when you also try to render the page…

Google’s John Mueller has said that Google is able to determine when to combine URLs together even before crawling the page. They can do this with many web sites based on their site structure.

Google’s John Mueller said in this morning’s webmaster hangout at the 6:18 mark that he has not yet reviewed or read through the updated search quality raters guidelines PDF…

Google announced yesterday new structured data annotations named Speakable. These annotations let you mark up sections of your news content that “are best suited for audio playback using text-to-speech (TTS)…

Google has updated the search quality raters guidelines PDF document on July 20th. Jennifer Slegg, who always does an awesome job digging into what has changed, published the changes once again with this update…

I was recently having a conversation with someone about why I find it valuable that I don’t do SEO services even though I write about SEO…