Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Google can take a really long time to validate your fixes you make in the new Google Search Console. Here is an example of it taking 90 days, almost three months to validate a fix.

Google issues a reminder that when you already received the Google mobile first indexing notification from Google Search Console – your site has already been switched over a while ago. The notifications are sent well after you have been switched over….

Yesterday I reported about the index status report update in the Google Search Console reporting tools. I mentioned how Google added a note to the report that says “Google Search Update: An event has occurred in Google Search that might affect your si…

Google has confirmed the date shown in the Google Cache is the date Google last indexed or reindexed a specific page. It is not the date GoogleBot last crawled the page.

Google is now letting those who were banned from showing event rich snippets in search submit a reevaluation request. This will then be reviewed by Google and if accepted, may let you show up again for event rich snippets.

Google has updated the Google Search Console Index Coverage report to be more accurate. This process began July 14th and ended August 1st and is now showing in the reports. Because of this you may see changes in your reported index coverage, Google s…

A couple weeks ago we reported that Google launched a beta of speakable markup for news publishers and I vowed to add it here and test it out. Well, it is done and I was able to capture it working on video…

As you know, Danny Sullivan is somewhat new to working at Google – for decades he worked from the other end of the field…

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.