Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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…

As you know, Google has cut down the snippet length in the search results significantly from when they increased them in December. But this should have zero impact on your rich snippets and rich cards…

This seems logical, but I’ll say it anyway, since Google’s John Mueller said it on Twitter. The faster your server responds to GoogleBot, the faster GoogleBot can crawl through your site. Google’s John Mueller said “the faster we can crawl…

Friday I mentioned something new that Google introduced named Dynamic Rendering. Google has still not come out with anything official about it, outside of what was mentioned in the video I posted last week…

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Yesterday we reported that Google cut down the search snippets length by about half just a few months (December) increasing it to 320 characters…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that GoogleBot currently will process the rel=canonical attribute on the initial fetch…

Google gave really only two SEO focused sessions at I/O this year, although, Google published all the sessions they thought SEOs and webmasters would care about…

Google can treat 308 redirects the same as they treat 301 redirects, says Google’s John Mueller. That is, of course…

We all know that Google can handle crawling and indexing all sorts of sites, including many types of mobile sites. But if you are using both an m-dot, i.e. a separate URL, and you are using a responsive design at the same time…

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Google has updated their mobile-friendly testing tools and their rich results testing tool to work with sites built in JavaScript…

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Schema and structured data expert, Aaron Bradley posted on Google+ that so changes to the datasets documentation page shows signs that maybe the datasets structured data will soon rollout and be available to webmasters, SE…

Google has officially added the ability to add videos to your Google Posts. That means you can not only upload your own content and images for people who search for your name or brand but you can also upload videos…

John Mueller from Google posted on Twitter that they have updated their image publishing guidelines at this help document…