Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Google’s John Mueller said it is fine using either root relative links (/google.html) vs relative links (google.html) as long as you are consistent on how you do your URL rewrites…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that serving too many 5xx errors, the internal server types of errors, can cause Google to slow the crawling of your web site…

The figure HTML tag or element is often used to represent self-contained content. It is frequently with a caption (figcaption)…

Since Google starting showing video carousels in the desktop results again, Google seems to have been showing way more videos in search than in the past…

Last November Google launched what are called Google News Publisher Knowledge Graph Cards but for some reason, over the past week, I have been getting notifications from the SEO industry that this is new…

Google’s John Mueller posted on Twitter asking about webmasters who have done medium to large web site migrations recently, about their experience…

Google has recently updated their official documentation for hreflang help. Prior, it only had content around using language annotations, supported language values and a couple of common mistakes…

In May, we reported that by the end of Q2 the AJAX crawling scheme will be going away. Well, Q2 has come and gone and has it gone away completely…

I know, I know, this is a basic SEO question – the absolute URLs versus relative URLs. But we covered it literally 10 years ago and back then Google’s John Mueller answered the question and also answered it today…

Alan Bleiweiss shared a scree shot of how the Google Sitemaps report in Google Search Console shows over 11…

The other day I covered how Google’s John Mueller implied there was gradual scale to the upcoming Speed Update. John said then “So the faster you can make your pages the more we can take that into account…

The Google Data Studio now also has 16-months of Search Analytics data from Google Search Console…

The SEO industry is a funny place in that we are constantly tracking Google updates as they are happening but at the same time, we are always trying to be one step ahead of them to know before they will happen. Like knowing when bad weather is about t…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that while self-referential hreflang is optional, it is also good practice to implement it…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that even if you try to disallow your robots.txt within your robots.txt, it won’t impact how Google processes and accesses that robots.txt. John said in response to someone asking if you can disallow your robots…..

Google’s John Mueller felt the need to explain on Twitter that there is no penalty for using or not using Google Analytics on your web site. Google doesn’t rank a web site any better or worse because you use or don’t use Google Analytics…

There was a somewhat fun conversation on Twitter around the new URL inspector tool. Some SEOs are saying that if Google provided an API for this tool, it would reduce scraping of the Google search results…

Google’s John Mueller said this morning in a video hangout at the 35:32 mark into the video that Google’s algorithms ignores more links found within press releases…

Google’s John Mueller spoke about the upcoming new Speed Update that is expected some time in July – so any day now…

Google released their web spam report for 2017, the two most shocking numbers released in this report were (a) link spam and (b) the number of people who landed on spammy results.