Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Google has announced that they have published their Google Assistant and voice search quality guidelines, similar to how Google published their search quality raters guidelines…

Google’s John Mueller explained in a webmaster video at the 54:51 mark that long term noindex, follow commands will eventually equate to a noindex, nofollow directive as well…

You see this a lot in the publishing world, where you have the same article published on hundreds of web sites. Normally it is from a news source like AP, where they send out the feed, third party publishers fetch it and then post it on their site…
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There is a post about using Google Tag Manager for SEO experiments and if Google is able to pick up on the title tags, meta changes, etc with using Google Tag Manager. It is a pretty interesting blog post and covers the tests well…

Typical reward and punishment sometimes is more black and white than how Google’s algorithm works these days…

Did you know that if you decide to just show your structured data markup to GoogleBot, Google’s spiders/crawlers, and hide it from normal users in the source code…

I am so happy to see the announcement that Google is now starting up these short SEO/webmaster videos to answer one question at a time within a few minutes. Yes…

Google’s John Mueller said that if it was him, he would nofollow all guest blog posts links – even if you are a regular contributor to a site and you write very high quality content, just nofollow the links out to your own site…

Google’s John Mueller said Google can handle sites on IPv6 & HTTP/2 all just fine with Google web search. But John also recommends that the set up also supports the older infrastructure, IPv4 & HTTP/1…

A Google Webmaster Help thread has someone saying that his vendor is pitching him on making a PWA, progressive web app, for his web site, over responsive because Google prefers PWAs and will thus rank them better…

Google announced yesterday that they (a) decided to rename all the “rich” related names into one name, Rich Results and (b) launch a new rich results testing tool…

As you know, Google finally updated their SEO starter guide the other week after several years of it being stale. But one SEO wants to know why there are no direct…

Back in 2015, Google announced they can now crawl locally better and said again not long ago that they are able to crawl locally if necessary. But do they do that that often…

After months and months of promises, Google has finally published on the Google webmaster blog their tips to getting ready for the mobile-first index.

If you have a site that supports AMP, you may notice that in your Search Analytics report within the Google Search Console…

It has been a while since we last talked or written about trailing slashes in your URLs and how it may or may not impact your rankings with Google. But hey, since Google’s John Mueller brought it up both on Google+ and Twitter, let’s get into it again….

Google has moved the AMP icon from the bottom left position to the top right position of the Top Stories carousel cards. I am not sure exactly when it was moved, but for as long as I can remember…

Google’s John Mueller said this morning on a Google hangout at the 3:40 mark into the video that you can pretty clearly see if your site has been moved over to the mobile first index by looking at your log files…

The other day we reported Google started sending out new security notifications via Google Search Console around TLS upgrade requirements…

Yesterday, I did my typical search for a local business to get their phone number so I can call them to place a food order…