Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

The people also ask feature in Google that began showing back in 2015 has seen a huge increase in the time it shows in the Google search results. The increase is reported at around 35%…

Google announced on Twitter that they are or have dropped “the public submission feature” to submit URLs to Google. Google said instead…

If you do a search for the popular [free dictionary] in Google, first Google will show you their dictionary box and then Google will show you the result for The Free Dictionary search result…

One of the things I see so often in the SEO space is that SEOs say you need your pages to have a word count of X for Google to want to index and rank it well. The truth is, that is not true – if it was…

Danny Sullivan from Google has said on Twitter that there is no search operator for sentiment simply because Google does not recognize sentiment in search…

Back to the advice of providing clear and consistent signals to Google – Google’s John Mueller had to tell someone on Twitter that Google won’t always recognize rel=canonical as the ultimate decision on which pages should be the canonical page…
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You cannot be a president in the Google era without getting multiple Googlebombs throughout your service. This time, it is Trump who got Googlebombed again, for the search term [idiot] in Google Image search…

As many of you know, Google has been active at rolling out the mobile-first indexing process to more and more sites in their index. We stopped keeping track of the notifications after what we documented the fourth batch of mobile-first indexing notifi…

There is an outstanding explanation from Google’s John Mueller about the differences around the noindex and rel=canonical signals and why they should not be mixed. In short…

This might sound funny by now because we’ve been talking about Google adding voice query data and filters to the Google Search Console Search Analytics report a lot last year…

Google’s John Mueller said this morning on Reddit that even if you have HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security) which kind of by default forces a domain to go from HTTP to HTTPS, that you should still set up the 301 redirects from HTTP to HTTPS as well…..

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that Google already can and does recognize broad site changes and thus there is no need for a button in Google Search Console to communicate these changes…

Google’s John Mueller was asked about how GoogleBot handles crawling, indexing and ranking SPAs, single page applications on the web…

Aaron Bradley who follows the schema, structured data, markup world closer than anyone else I know spotted an update to some Google documentation and posted about it on Google+. In short…

As you all know very well, the Google Speed Update has begun rolling out and while it is a bit too early to see the impact SEOs and webmasters are super eager to make sure their web pages do not get dinged by this update…

You’ve all seen it, how different web sites and email signatures format their phone numbers. Some do 212-555-5555, some do (212) 555-5555, some do 212.555.5555, some do 212 555 5555…

People over the years have complained a lot about the reports within Google Search Console. Some don’t trust the reports…

Yesterday, I asked John Mueller of Google the status of when the Google Speed Update that starting to roll out two days ago – when will it be fully rolled out. I basically asked…

In a webmaster hangout yesterday at the 1 minute 22 second mark, someone asked if they own bluewidgets.com and then a competitor or two own mybluewidgets.com or ibluewidgets…

A few weeks ago, Google launched the URL inspection tool within the new Google Search Console. Not everyone was seeing it, it was rolling out slowly but now, according to Google…