Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

The folks at RankRanger posted on Twitter that they are seeing less Featured Snippets show up on Google mobile search…

We all know how good Google is at understanding and crawling JavaScript, AJAX and complex web pages in many forms, but Google’s John Mueller said, when it comes to discovering links within onclick events in JavaScript…

Google treats all those new TLDs that launched a few years ago as generic TLDs, and by default, those are not geotargeted. That includes the new TLDs for popular cities such as .london, .madrid…

Just to be clear, Google said this before – Google: Few Strong Pages > Many Weak Ones but here John Mueller explained it a bit more. He said that when you take one big…

Google’s new guidelines around Job Postings and listings requires that you remove any job postings on your web site that have been filled. If you do not remove the listing…

Google’s John Mueller responded to someone on Twitter who was upset that his content ranks well in India but that same content doesn’t rank well in the US based Google results. John said that not all content is relevant to all users in all locations……

Google announced on Twitter that the new version of the Google Search Console has added a filter and comparison toggle in the Search Performance report (similar to the old Search Analytics report) for “search appearance…

Barry Adams posted on Twitter that he got a notice from Google Search Console about an AMP issue…

John Mueller from Google said on Reddit that if your cache link in Google returns a 404 error, that it doesn’t mean your rankings will be hurt in Google. John said “that can happen…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter yesterday that before Google moves a site from desktop-first indexing to mobile-first indexing, they do look to see the links on…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that RSS feeds do not help your web site rank better in Google or Google News. He technically said “no” to the question for a “a news website…

This may be super obvious, but sometimes the most obvious stuff is not as obvious as you’d like. Content pulled from an API or data feed is technically copied content…

Google posted on their data anomalies page an update about their Jobs Postings Report saying after April 10…

In 2013, Google listed the 20 ccTLDs they treat as generic TLDs. So for example, a .co TLD would not be geotargetted towards Colombia by default, because so many people use .co TLDs not within the region of Colombia…

Google said even though Chrome 41, how GoogleBot sees the web, doesn’t support CSS Grid Layouts, Google is still able to index the content on those pages…

We’ve have our issues with Google showing the wrong date or false dates in the search results snippets…

So let’s say you are a big fan of writing content with quotes or brackets but all of a sudden you learn about this thing called SEO [search engine optimization] and you become paranoid that your “SEO” won’t be “optimal” if you use brackets a lot of quo…

Here is another SEO Snippets video, this one on the basic topic of submitting more than 50,000 URLs via your sitemap file to Google…

A core algorithm update, the mobile-first indexing rollout begins, zero search results tested, image search captions…

A good question came in video a Google webmaster hangout, in the video at the 21:30 mark the SEO asked if Google has a recommendation around how long A/B tests…