Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

We are now off the 302 redirects fighting and now onto fighting about how Google handles subdirectories vs subdomains…

You really never have to submit URLs to Google to index, you can, but you don’t need to. The best bet is to make sure to have links to those URLs from pages Google already crawls and indexes…

John Mueller of Google is always super active in the forums, on Twitter and in many other areas including conferences and hangouts helping SEOs and webmasters with their Google questions. But often, when it comes to one-on-one advice, his responses ar…

Yesterday I broke the news at Search Engine Land that the new Google Search Console beta is live for everyone, even those who did not get the email notifications. As I said…

Go to Google and search for [7 deadly sins], Google will show you there fancy featured snippet result and for number four, superbia or pride or hubris, Google will show a photo of a Gay Pride flag…

In August, we reported that Google via the fetch and render tool, can crawl pages with a rendering of 10,000 pixels high. Well, JR Oakes informed me on Twitter that GoogleBot can now go to even new heights…

As you know, the new Google Search Console beta is rolling out to more people and yesterday…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that site splits or merges take longer that one-to-one site moves to adapt and transition in Google’s index and ranking.

That means that if you move lets say from domainA.com to domainB…

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…