Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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…

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…