Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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…

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…