Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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…

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…