Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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.

Early Thursday morning Google accidentally removed the PDF document containing the quality raters guidelines. By noon, Google has fixed the issue and the PDF has returned for download.

Yesterday I reported how Google suggested that some SEOs make up theories to suit their own agenda. So someone asked John Mueller of Google to debunk one of those theories in which John said debunking all the theories across the web is not a scalable …

Google’s fetch as Google tool in Search Console lets you do a lot of cool things but what happens with the fetch part works but when you also try to render the page…

Google’s John Mueller has said that Google is able to determine when to combine URLs together even before crawling the page. They can do this with many web sites based on their site structure.

Google’s John Mueller said in this morning’s webmaster hangout at the 6:18 mark that he has not yet reviewed or read through the updated search quality raters guidelines PDF…

Google announced yesterday new structured data annotations named Speakable. These annotations let you mark up sections of your news content that “are best suited for audio playback using text-to-speech (TTS)…

Google has updated the search quality raters guidelines PDF document on July 20th. Jennifer Slegg, who always does an awesome job digging into what has changed, published the changes once again with this update…

I was recently having a conversation with someone about why I find it valuable that I don’t do SEO services even though I write about SEO…

The people also ask feature in Google that began showing back in 2015 has seen a huge increase in the time it shows in the Google search results. The increase is reported at around 35%…

Google announced on Twitter that they are or have dropped “the public submission feature” to submit URLs to Google. Google said instead…

If you do a search for the popular [free dictionary] in Google, first Google will show you their dictionary box and then Google will show you the result for The Free Dictionary search result…

One of the things I see so often in the SEO space is that SEOs say you need your pages to have a word count of X for Google to want to index and rank it well. The truth is, that is not true – if it was…

Danny Sullivan from Google has said on Twitter that there is no search operator for sentiment simply because Google does not recognize sentiment in search…