Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

John Mueller of Google said on Twitter yesterday that although structured data, by itself, does not give you a ranking boost, it can help Google understand your content and thus help you rank in Google…

Google’s John Mueller said in a Reddit thread that while the index status report in the old Google Search Console and index coverage report in the new Google Search Console are the same…

Google’s 2009 AJAX crawling scheme solution is still alive today even though Google killed it off in 2015 and then warned SEOs and webmasters to stop using it last year.

John Mueller of Google said in a Reddit thread that he believes “it’s not far awa…

Does Google’s ranking algorithms look at the code to text ratio on your web pages? The quick answer is no and it is one of those old SEO questions people have been asking…

In yet another SEO Snippets video John Mueller of Google addresses another basic SEO question, around how you end your URLs, what extension you use.

The question was “will removing that HTML from our URLs help my site…

For the past couple of months or so, we have been reporting on changes to the request indexing and submit URL Google tool because of abuse and spam. Those limits were set aggressively for quiet some time but as of this morning…

For years we’ve been covering questions around how to deal with A/B testing and Google indexing/crawling…

John Mueller of Google answered another question on Reddit around a site that has a legacy Google spam penalty and the site simply won’t recover, even after a lot of effort…

Yesterday we reported on something lingering for a couple weeks around Google not indexing new URLs fast enough, like they use to…

For the past couple of weeks I’ve been noticing an uptick in complaints that Google is not indexing new URLs on their web sites. They also are complaining that they can’t get the fetch as Google tool to index those URLs because of the new limits…
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Google’s John Mueller asked and answered his own question in the latest SEO Snippets video – this one is on using non-English URLs. He said it is perfectly fine and sometimes recommended to use non-English URLs on non-English web sites…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that the Google Search Console search analytics report only tracks clicks as clicks when the user clicks on something in the search results that leads you directly to your web site…

As you know, GoogleBot uses Chrome version 41 to crawl the web…

Google’s John Mueller said on stage this morning at SMX Munich that Google Search Console will send FYIs to those sites that have been moved from the desktop-first index to the mobile-first index…

An interesting question came up at the AMA with Google at SMX West last week, where Nathan Johns from Google was asked if the nofollow link attribute that launched in 2005…

Google’s new Search Console which is live for all just got some upgrades Google wants to share with you. Google shared on Twitter that the upgrades are mostly “visual updates” to the reporting in the tool…

In continuation of the SEO Snippets videos where Google’s John Mueller answers popular questions in a short video, Google answered the typical 404 errors question…

As you know, Google is now sometimes showing no search results on the search results page – instead, Google is just showing answers for queries related to time, conversions and calculations…

Tuesday, while I was on stage on the mobile-first Google panel I heard a rumor that Google’s Gary Illyes may have said that the new Google Search Console shows data only …

As many of you know, Google has set new quotas for the Fetch as Google submit to index feature because of spam and abuse. But it still seems there is a cat and mouse game…