Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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…

As you know, the mobile first index is getting ready to expand in the upcoming weeks and some webmasters that still have desktop only sites are a bit nervous. If you still …

If you have issues with Google indexing specific URLs on your site, Google says putting those URLs into new XML Sitemap files won’t help them get indexed…

Casey Markee shared a screen shot of his inbox showing how he had repeated notifications from Google Search Console telling him to “fix long page titles” on a website he has verified access to…

John Mueller from Google told one SEO on a Reddit thread that using “web 2.0 tricks” or “link wheeling” probably doesn’t work with Google these days. To be honest…

If you login to your Google Search Console account, click on the “Crawl Stats” section under the “Crawl” drop down, you will see the last report that shows time spent downloading a page (in milliseconds) shows a huge drop in the metric…

A new feature added to the new Google Search Console is the ability to filter your performance reports to only show differences of X value…

If you follow this site, you will see there is a theme with Google – that theme is that they keep investing more and more into schema and markup. They keep adding more support for it and they keep encouraging webmasters and publishers to add it to the…

Just yesterday, 24 hours ago, we reported that John Mueller of Google said that they will be porting all the old Google Search Console features to the new version…

Yesterday at PubCon, Gary Illyes from Google said something that got attention by the folks in the audience. He said that where you place your content on your page can impact

Google published on their data anomalies page about a new error in the reporting section of the old Google Search Console’s blocked resources report. You may see decreased counts of pages with blocked resources…

Gary Illyes from Google said at PubCon that Google will be rolling in more web sites into the mobile first index starting over the next several weeks.

When Google first changed the request indexing limits and quotas in the Google Search Console tool, Google was pretty cryptic and secretive about the whole situation. Just the other day, they documented the new quotas…