Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that they treat hreflang found in your XML Sitemaps file and HTML code markup equally. We know it is more efficient and manageable for larger sites to use Sitemaps for hreflang…

Will Google pick up images you include in a div tag? The answer, at least from Google’s John Mueller, is likely no – Google Image search will not pick up those images. John did…

Late on Friday, which is common for Google on spam topics, posted on the Google blog about how they fight against spam in their search results. Not much in that blog post is…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter this morning that he doesn’t believe that changing the word order of your title tags would impact your SEO and ranking. “If you’re swapping the order of keywords in a title, I wouldn’t expect that to have an effect…

We’ve been talking about how Google deals with HTML5 in terms of SEO and ranking since 2010. While there can be issues with some elements, for the most part, HTML5 is fine for Google…

Lisa Wang from the Google News team posted in the Google News Help forums last night that they are deprecating a bunch of publisher specific features within Google News. Some we already reported…

With all the debate around the changes to how Google displays snippets in the search results in May…

Google’s John Mueller addressed the ongoing issues and complaints about how Google displays dates in the search results snippets and how sometimes, maybe more often than anyone wants, the dates in the snippets are wrong…

Google’s John Mueller said in a hangout with webmasters at the 47:47 minute mark that if a site sees a big drop in a day or so in their Google rankings and others are complaining about a Google update then that is probably related to a change on Google…

There is this SEO myth that more GoogleBot crawler activity translates to more Google organic traffic. That is not always the case…

Google posted on the data anomalies page under the search analytics section that the data for the job posting report may differ after May 29…

Remember the Google update I reported in early March? One thing I left out of that story, intentionally, was some chatter that the those noticing a ranking decline around then may have had a bug with the popular Yoast plugin.

If you try to check your Google Search Console report for crawl stats…

On June 30, 2018, the PCI Council is suggesting that all web sites migrate from TLS 1.0 to TLS 1.1 or higher…

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