Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

John Mueller, Google’s Search Trends Analyst said something meme worthy the other day in a Google webmaster hangout…

Spectre & Meltdown patches which were introduced over the processor bug that most major cloud services and other providers have issued patches for already are slowing down servers…

Back in 2005 Google and Yahoo would compete over the size of their search engine index. That competition somewhat ended at the end of 2005…

If you are not back in the Google News index, chances are, you were not removed due to this bug. But if you believe you were, Valerie Streit from Google gave those publishers advice.

Google’s John Mueller said this morning in a webmaster hangout at the 20:55 mark that Google Image search does not index and rank images from CSS background code…

In many cases the report shows “unavailable” mostly for smaller sites that get less traffic that a larger site.

If you have access to the new Google Search Console features yet…

It seems if you compare the old Google Search Console Search Analytics report to the new Google Search Console Search Performance report, you will see the new report is a day off. It seems the old report is the correct day, while the new report shows …

So now that we have 16 months of data in the new Google Search Console for the Search Performance report people want it in the Search Analytics API. Well…

Google’s John Mueller said in a video hangout at the 3:16 mark that the URLs Google finds in your XML sitemap files are often used to define your canonical URLs…

Google announced they have updated the Pagespeed Insights tool to now show real user data from Chrome users, on how they access your pages. That means, if you are using Chrome and accessing this page…

The new Google Search Console is rolling out over the next few weeks to all webmasters and you will be able to access the new Google Search Console and the old one via links in the navigation…

If you check out the Google News Help forums you will see many many complaints from news publishers that their news site is no longer in the Google News index…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that they “never index all known URLs” and calls that “pretty normal.”

This comes after a complaint that the URLs the webmaster submitted to Google via Google Sitemaps were not all indexed by Google according to…

This morning, Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that Google discounts hidden text for search rankings. John said “we discount hidden text for ranking…

A webmaster asked Google if having too many subfolders on your site, in your site architecture, could that hurt your rankings. Google responded to the question on Twitter saying no, it does not hurt your rankings…

Every now and then you hear complaints or questions from SEOs that the reports in the Google Search Analytics report is wrong…

There is this long run theory in the SEO world that Google will sometimes make up URLs with the attempt to try and discover, crawl and index pages they can’t find otherwise. If you think of that theory, it kind of seems inefficient and un-Google like …

Google said back in June that when thinking about the mobile first index that you should try your best to make your mobile pages equivalent to your desktop pages…

There is an interesting new thread at the Black Hat World forums around a site that saw its rankings drop recently, and them trying to figure out if it is related to the acquisition of PBN based links from about four months ago…