Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that the order of the URLs in your XML Sitemap files does not matter. He did say that you probably should save the “start of the file for the most awesome URLs.” But he later added that “the order among them do…

The Cache-Control general-header has no impact on GoogleBot and how it crawls your web pages. The cache-control general-header “field is used to specify directives for caching mechanisms in both requests and responses,” says MDN docs…

Google’s John Mueller said in a webmaster hangout video at the 24:43 minute mark that Google does not use survey data, ratings, reviews, stars, etc in their organic ranking factors…

About a week ago, we told you about a bug with Google Search Console where the crawl stats were delayed a bit. Well, it is now 3 weeks, 21 days, since the crawl stats has been updated.

Update: 10 minutes after I posted this…

I love seeing Google SEO related questions I’ve never seen before and this one, I never saw before. Does Google decode md5 hash values in URLs to extract hidden keywords within them for image search or web search. The answer is no but I am sure that …

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that they treat hreflang found in your XML Sitemaps file and HTML code markup equally. We know it is more efficient and manageable for larger sites to use Sitemaps for hreflang…

Will Google pick up images you include in a div tag? The answer, at least from Google’s John Mueller, is likely no – Google Image search will not pick up those images. John did…

Late on Friday, which is common for Google on spam topics, posted on the Google blog about how they fight against spam in their search results. Not much in that blog post is…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter this morning that he doesn’t believe that changing the word order of your title tags would impact your SEO and ranking. “If you’re swapping the order of keywords in a title, I wouldn’t expect that to have an effect…

We’ve been talking about how Google deals with HTML5 in terms of SEO and ranking since 2010. While there can be issues with some elements, for the most part, HTML5 is fine for Google…

Lisa Wang from the Google News team posted in the Google News Help forums last night that they are deprecating a bunch of publisher specific features within Google News. Some we already reported…

With all the debate around the changes to how Google displays snippets in the search results in May…

Google’s John Mueller addressed the ongoing issues and complaints about how Google displays dates in the search results snippets and how sometimes, maybe more often than anyone wants, the dates in the snippets are wrong…

Google’s John Mueller said in a hangout with webmasters at the 47:47 minute mark that if a site sees a big drop in a day or so in their Google rankings and others are complaining about a Google update then that is probably related to a change on Google…

There is this SEO myth that more GoogleBot crawler activity translates to more Google organic traffic. That is not always the case…

Google posted on the data anomalies page under the search analytics section that the data for the job posting report may differ after May 29…

Remember the Google update I reported in early March? One thing I left out of that story, intentionally, was some chatter that the those noticing a ranking decline around then may have had a bug with the popular Yoast plugin.

If you try to check your Google Search Console report for crawl stats…

On June 30, 2018, the PCI Council is suggesting that all web sites migrate from TLS 1.0 to TLS 1.1 or higher…