Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that Google does not “pass signals through a lot of different kinds of links,” when asked if Google automatically nofollow Amazon affiliate links.

He added “so I wouldn’t be surprised if that were the case here……

When Google confirmed the Google update from the weekend, Danny Sullivan explained that it was a “core update” that happens only several times per year…

Google’s announcement about Google Posts for musicians is a bit confusing because Google had the same announcement literally a year ago – the difference is, now any musician can sign up for it and use it IF they have a knowledge panel in the Google sea…

John Mueller from Google said Google’s algorithms doesn’t give a benefit to a site that produces more content, more frequently than other sites. He said on Twitter, “a site isn’t a machine that pumps out content at a fixed rate. Well, it shouldn’t be …

Google has published yet another novice/beginning SEO video around what metrics Google has available to measure your index count in Google, i.e. the number of pages Google indexed from your web site…

Let’s say you have your site hosted in the United States and then you decide because of data protection reasons you want to move your server and your web site on it on to a server in Germany…

Gary Illyes from Google is currently in India, in the New Delhi region and he said if SEOs or Webmasters want to meet up Wednesday, Thursday and/or Friday at 5pm local time, he will be at the Hilton Garden Inn Gurgaon…

This is a no brainer and one of the easiest things you can do to help a site perform better in search – make sure their title tags are reflecting the content on the page and what the searcher would query to find their content…

Site moves and domain or URL changes can be scary, nerve wracking, dangerous and risky. Even Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that “there’s never a guarantee…

Several months ago, we covered how Google does not use GS1 markup for ranking in the search results. Today, Google’s John Mueller clarified that Google currently does not use GS1 markup at all for any purpose in search, be it ranking…

For as long as I can remember, Google’s John Mueller has been preaching consistency when it comes to SEO…

Google’s John Mueller broached on the topic of reading level again and this time he answered it a bit differently. A couple months ago he explained that Google doesn’t have reading levels in their algorithms. You should read that story to see what he…

I literally have several blog posts here that has Google saying not to use the meta refresh redirect type. That you should use a 301 or 302 redirect instead and not the meta refresh version…

There still seems to be confusion about ranking versus indexing. As you know, Google has the mobile first index that is rolling out and then in July we have the Google Page Speed Update for mobile…

Google has posted their first SEO Snippets video since announcing it back in December. This is a basic SEO question on how fast and often Google recrawls and reindexes a specific web site…

Eric Bidelman from Google posted a PSA, public service announcement, that since GoogleBot is based on Chrome 41…

One specific feature that Google plans on migrating over but vastly changing seems to be the property sets feature that let’s you combine multiple properties…

Google has said before that they can’t see lazy loaded content on mobile but said it is a tricky situation. That was back in 2015, about three years ago…

In 2014, Google’s Fetch as Google, the fetch and fender tool in the Google Search Console stopped working with hashbang URLs, URLs that have the #…

Last week we reported that the crawl stats report seemed to be buggy. Well, Google confirmed the bug by posting both on Twitter and the data anomalies page about the issue…