Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

So John Mueller of Google spoke a bit about page speed in this mornings Google webmaster video hangout at the 1:58 mark. He said the current page speed factor, which is desktop only…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that he believes that crawl budget optimization is overrated in his mind. He said for most sites…

The new Google Search Console has added a quick drop down menu to navigate from verified site to site within the new version of the Google Search Console…

For the past several tags the Google Structured Data Testing Tools has stopped working with Google Tag Manager. If you use Google Tag Manager it might mean that the Structured Data Testing Tool won’t be able to validate some of your markup…

Well, this is one of those no-brainer posts, but hey – I’ll say it anyway, PDF documents are simply not mobile-friendly. They require you to pinch and zoom to really see the content and images in the PDF and thus, are not optimized for mobile devices….

How would these GDPR notices impact SEO and your Google search rankings? Well, Google doesn’t have any exception for the intrusive mobile interstitial penalty for GDPR requirements

The fourth batch, I believe that is what we are up to now, of notices that sites have been moved over to the mobile-first index has gone out over the weekend…

As you know, there has been another wave of mobile-first index moves over this weekend and some are noticing that when a site is moved, if you try to access the Google Cache of that site…

Aaron Bradley posted on Google+ that the Google rich results testing tool now supports testing on movies, TV shows and events markup. So now in addition to job posting, recipe, and course…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that Google doesn’t count your typos. He said that it is always good fixing known issues with your site, be it spelling mistakes, technical errors…

So with all this JavaScript code and high end JS based web development going on, pages need to render and the heavier the code and the slower the server and computer accessing the page, the longer the wait time for the page to render…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that having shared robots.txt across multiple domains is fine and should work for search. John wrote “It sounds like you have a shared robots…

Here is yet another update on when Google will really be killing off the AJAX crawling scheme from 2009. Google announced its death in 2015 but then gave it a date of Q2 of 2018 last year and continued to tell us it is on the chopping block…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that Google doesn’t look at the number of slashes, i.e. /, you have in a URL for search purposes. John said “We don’t count slashes in a URL…

John Mueller of Google said on Twitter having your title tag read exactly the same as your image alt tag on the same page…

A few months ago, I asked you all to take a poll around if you have ever hurt a web site using spammy links to downgrade their rankings in Google search. The good news is that 66% of those who responded said they never tried to do so…

The topic of HTML validation has been covered here time and time again – we know Google doesn’t downgrade or boost a web site with bad or good HTML validation…

The new Google Search Console isn’t fully on par with the feature set of the old Google Search Console…

Google has expanded the job posting schema and structured data to additional countries outside of the United States. Job posting structured data lets you mark up your job listings on your web site so they gain additional visibility in the search resul…

Google’s John Mueller once again said on Twitter that using a shared IP with other web sites, even if some of those sites are slummy or considered bad neighborhoods, is fine. “Shared IP addresses are fine for search…