Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Gary Illyes from Google is currently in India, in the New Delhi region and he said if SEOs or Webmasters want to meet up Wednesday, Thursday and/or Friday at 5pm local time, he will be at the Hilton Garden Inn Gurgaon…

This is a no brainer and one of the easiest things you can do to help a site perform better in search – make sure their title tags are reflecting the content on the page and what the searcher would query to find their content…

Site moves and domain or URL changes can be scary, nerve wracking, dangerous and risky. Even Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that “there’s never a guarantee…

Several months ago, we covered how Google does not use GS1 markup for ranking in the search results. Today, Google’s John Mueller clarified that Google currently does not use GS1 markup at all for any purpose in search, be it ranking…

For as long as I can remember, Google’s John Mueller has been preaching consistency when it comes to SEO…

Google’s John Mueller broached on the topic of reading level again and this time he answered it a bit differently. A couple months ago he explained that Google doesn’t have reading levels in their algorithms. You should read that story to see what he…

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…