Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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…

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…