Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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Now that the mobile-first indexing process is really rolling out now I wanted to remind you that Google said hidden content is okay when you switch over the the mobile-first indexing process…

Let’s say you embed an interactive chart either using one of those JavaScript libraries from Google or another company…

Google is now starting to send out notifications about sites switching to the mobile-first indexing process. It is funny…

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We know hreflang is pretty complex and in many cases, you don’t necessarily need it but if you do it right…

A WebmasterWorld thread started by old-timer SEO, goodROI, posted that as a side project, he took an old site of his that was not doing much and decided to see if he can poison it in Google with spammy links. He said after ten weeks of trying…
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Google has a report in Google Search Console that shows you your duplicate meta descriptions…

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Back in 2011, Google came out with authorship a way of Google understanding which content was written by which author, no matter what domain they posted their content on…

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What if you really don’t want to get into the hreflang game, maybe because it is considered one of the most complex aspects of SEO or maybe because you want Google to figure it out…

The folks over at Yoast posted that they researched the before and after affects after Google extended their snippets maximum length a few months ago…

Bill Slawski posted on his blog about the update PageRank patent that was granted today…

It has been a while since we mentioned the Google HTTPS ranking boost that launched in August 2014. But John Mueller mentioned maybe on new item around it saying that this ranking boost has nothing to do with any specific industry…

You have this large site and you noindex a lot of the parameter, filter, sort, etc types of pages but yet…

Google’s rel=next and rel=prev is to indicate pagination as the help docs explain, it launched in September 2011 to solve the issues with paginated content and what content to rank in search.

But those attributes go in the head of your web page…
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It looks like Google is showing titles on some of the featured snippets results on mobile. Mordy Oberstein from RankRanger posted on Twitter that he spotted it and shared some screen shots…

Bill Hartzer posted about a “new undetectable negative SEO tactic” last week, which was a pretty significant blog post title to use because it is a very strong accusation…

On Friday, Google published a How Google autocomplete works in Search but in that post, as I dug into at Search Engine Land, Google announced they are expanding the types of predictions they remove from autocomplete…

As you may know, Google began rolling out the mobile first indexing process a few weeks ago, although…

Site moves in the SEO world are always scary, moving from one domain to another or one URL structure to another can be nerve racking. But imagine you go through with…

I spotted a conversation on Twitter around how some webmasters and SEOs are so afraid of losing their rankings when being switched over to mobile-first indexing that they are intentionally making sure their web sites are not fully mobile-friendly…
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Google’s John Mueller addressed the topic of page pruning again, but this time explains that Google can only judge the overall site quality based on the pages they have of that site that is in their index…