Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Google has given a generous donation to FOSDEM, Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting, and now has three juicy links on the FOSDEM Sponsors page. Those links…

We have seen many flavors of featured snippets in the Google search results, but here is an interesting one spotted by Rebecca Lehmann and posted on Twitter…

Google announced on Google+ and John Mueller also added to it that Google is going to shutting down Google Blogsearch “Ping” service. It launched back in 2006 when a lot of blogging platforms used the ping method to communicate “trackbacks” i.e. link …

For the past week or so, we have been on a mission to figure out if Google intentionally removed the quota message in the Google Search Console Fetch as Google request indexing feature and if so…

Over the past 24 hours or so, I received dozens of notifications of a new look and design for the people also search for box in Google. It is something we covered Google testing back in November…

You would assume that since Google search doesn’t even check to make sure the HTTPS is valid for your search ranking boost that Google also doesn’t check to see the level of security for a domain name in search…

A webmaster or business owner was upset his website dropped in its Google search rankings and complained in the Google Webmaster Help forums…

The relatively new job schema for the Google for Jobs feature now has added a new markup specifically designed to communicate that a job listing is available for remote workers or telecommuters…

Last week we reported how Google removed the quota notification within the request indexing feature in the Google Search Console fetch as Google feature. We noted the documentation still had the quota but the interface removed the quota notification….

Over the past few days, the webmaster and SEO community has been asking why did Google remove the quota number from the Google Search Console Fetch as Google “request indexing” feature…

Aaron Bradley posted on Google+ that Google has changed the article schema requirements documentation specifically for AMP pages that you now need to provide higher resolution graphics in that AMP markup…

Google is sending out new Google Search Console notifications to some webmasters asking them to “provide a manifest and high resolution favicon for” their web sites. I guess Google wants higher resolution favicons to show up in the Chrome browser…
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Just a few months ago, we reported that Google may have started showing more featured snippets recently but the data between the tool providers seemed off. It might be how each tool provider tracks those features…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that even big sites that do paid links, buying or selling of links to pass PageRank or manipulate the Google search results, can be penalized and it is against Google’s webmaster guidelines…

Google announced on the Webmaster blog that they have updated the Lighthouse Chrome Extension to add SEO Audit features.

Google said “you can now do a basic SEO Health-check in Chrome (Canary) DevTools or with the Lighthouse extension…

Google’s John Mueller answered a question I never heard before around dynamically generated sitemap files, generating new file names for these sitemap files every single day…

Google posted on the data anomalies page a new bug with their Google Search Console reporting…

As many of you know, Google’s new Search Console was redesigned around helping webmasters discover, fix and validate those fixes…

Google’s John Mueller wrote on Twitter “remember that the content on ‘non-canonical’ versions generally doesn’t get used.” Meaning, if you point page A to page B using a 301 or canonical tag…

What happens when your disavow file can’t fit anymore URLs and you have no more room to add anymore URLs to the list…