Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Google has officially launched their structured data codelab, which allows you to walk through a step-by-step process to make your own structured data for your web site. Google’s codelab walks you through adding several types of structured data to a si…

Google’s John Mueller said in a video hangout that Google can technically process canonicals within JavaScript. This is assuming that what is shown in the JavaScript doesn’t conflict with other signals. John confirmed this on Twitter when Patrick St…

Remember we reported that Google dropped anonymous queries from the Search Analytics and Performance reports in Google Search Console on August 19th? Well, Google is now clarifying that the data was never displayed but the queries they hide were previ…

There is a thread at Reddit on the topic of someone building out a PBN, a public blog network. These are often used to manipulate Google’s search results through link schemes. Well, Google’s John Mueller commented on the thread saying “Sounds like an…

Google’s John Mueller said again that any type of bad content on your site, be it content you write yourself or content published by users – i.e. user generated content, can be used to judge your site. He said the content displayed is what Google uses…

Google’s John Mueller said it is great to go through old content and make sure it is still valid and accurate. But doing so doesn’t mean that you should update the date of the content to the date you reviewed it. If you want to inform the users who are…

Last week we reported that some were notice huge drops in their Google Search Console reports when using the query filter. Well, Google just posted on their data anomalies page that they have removed what they call “anonymous query.”

Google’s new link report in the beta Google Search Console does have a download latest links button. It was just hard to find as Bryson Meunier said on Twitter. It is on the main links screen, it is not within the external links screen.

Google’s John Mueller said on Friday in a webmaster video that redirecting all of your URLs to your home page is bad practice. Instead, you should redirect those URLs on a one by one basis to the proper new location.

Google’s John Mueller has confirmed that he is in regular contact with both web spam team and the search quality teams at Google. There are many people who feel John and others from his webmaster trends analysts team are not in touch with those teams….

Google’s John Mueller said in a webmaster hangout video that Google’s spam teams take it super serious when a web site is taken over by another one in the search results. If you see that happen, Google wants to jump on those issues and tackle them qui…

Google launched the new link report in the new beta Google Search Console this week. One of the biggest complaints was it was missing the option to download the latest links, like the old version has. Google’s John Mueller confirmed that feature will …

John Mueller of Google answered a question in a Reddit thread about advice on how an SEO noob, a person who is inexperienced in SEO, learn and get good at SEO. John said you should gain experience with the help of webmaster help forums and communities….

There seems to be a lot of complaints in the past day around the Google Search Console performance report, when the query filter is used on that report. Many are saying when used, the report shows a huge drop in impressions and clicks starting on Augu…

Google announced that they will now begin automatically verifying some users in Google Search Console, which will open up access to Google Search Console to countless (I don’t even know the figure, hundreds of thousands, millions?) of webmasters, site …

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that the URL inspector tool that launched about a month ago shows more recent and up-to-date information that the Google Search Console indexing reports. The indexing reports can be one to two weeks delayed, while…

For years, I’ve been suggesting along with the SEO community that Google think about how to design an automated action viewer in Google Search Console. A report that shows which algorithms, Panda, Penguin, interstitial, page speed, core search, etc has…

Yesterday we reported Google came out with a new link report for the new Google Search Console to replace the old link report in the old. The thing is, the numbers might differ when you look at the old and new report because Google has changed how they…

We all know that making HTTP to HTTPS site migrations is unique, it is treated differently by Google. Google said when making such a migration, they strongly recommend you use a 301 redirect (not a 302 or 303) on a URL by URL basis. If you do not, the…

I did it, I asked John Mueller of Google to please give additional advice to SEOs and webmasters about the Google Medic Update, the core algorithm update on August 1st. He said there is “not really” any more advice to give.