Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Yesterday we reported how Google released the Google Indexing API specifically for job posting URLs but if you look closely at the wording…

Google’s John Mueller explained on Twitter twice the other day that every single URL Google has in their index automatically has a canonical URL assigned. John said “any URL that’s indexed implicitly has a canonical URL (which might be the same [URL])….

Yesterday we covered the new Google Search Console URL inspection tool and the biggest question I’ve seen about it is where can I find it…

Google announced this morning they released a new API called the Indexing API but it is only available for job posting URLs that support job schema. It is not available for other types of content…

Google just announced a new feature in the beta Google Search Console called the URL inspection tool. This tool basically gives you insight into a specific single URL on how Google indexed that version of that a specific page…

We know that Google says you can spam and stuff the meta keywords tag all you want, it won’t cause a penalty because Google simply ignore the meta keywords tag…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that he doesn’t believe things like keyword stuffing should lead a site or page to be removed from the Google search index. He said “IMO keyword stuffing shouldn’t result in removal from the index…

Google told us earlier that two News publisher features is going away. Specifically the ability to highlight mobile apps in the Google News Publisher Center and News crawl error tool on Search Console…

Google PageSpeed Insights can now tell you how fast your whole site is as a whole because it now lets you see the aggregated page speed data across your whole domain name. All you need to do is either (a) search using the syntax origin:https://www.do…

Google is actively reaching out, asking webmasters and SEOs what they use the internal link report in Google Search Console for. This is Google trying to think how they can improve and build out a more productive…

John Mueller of Google said it again, yes we covered this back in March 2018, that the new Google Search Console may simply consolidate all your properties altogether into one property without having you to verify each one…

Google’s John Mueller said that data-href attributes are not links and thus do not pass link signals or PageRank. If you want it to pass link signals then use simple href link attributes…

Other and additional Google Search Console APIs may get 16 months worth of data as well as the Search Analytics API.

Google said it can take many months for Google to reclassify a web site that was classified as being adult, to not being adult anymore…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that Web Light has no impact on your search rankings in Google. It is just a way for Google to display your content to those with slow devices…

Everyone knows Google Search Console has a removal tool, they launched it back in 2007…

We heard this would be coming back 6 months ago and now it is finally here – 16 months worth of data not just in the Google Search Console beta user interface but now also in the Search Analytics API within Google Search Console…

Last week, I saw some chatter within the industry of people complaining that their Links to Your Site report in Google Search Console has dropped significantly. In the old days, if this metric shifted significantly up or down…

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Let me start by saying all of these points, in my opinion, is something we’ve covered here before but the interesting thing is that Google felt these seven items are things SEOs who give presentations have confused over th…

Yesterday, Google announced on Twitter that they added a new Google Search Console filter in the new beta performance report to filter out Web Light results…