Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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…

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…