Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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…

In July, we first uncovered the new beta Google Search Console and SEOs and webmasters have been eager to get into the beta…

Google has released a years worth of data in Google Search Console – well the beta version. If you have access to the beta version of Google Search Console and go to…

There is often a lot of confusion around what a doorway page is and since it is specifically against Google’s very own guidelines…

Last week, Google confirmed they are rolling out longer search snippets but they also said via Danny Sullivan that you do not need to, nor should you…

Google has finally updated their SEO starter guide after first publishing it several years ago and only updating it once in 2012. Google did recently say the old one is still relevant but promised to update the guide for mobile and markup details…
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Anyone who has been managing website security for the past few years has been following the long phase out period of TLS version 1. We are moving to TLS version 1.2, as TLS 1 is no longer that safe…

There are many folks out there that have generic or master lists of disavow files that they bring over from one site to the next. But Google doesn’t recommend using a generic disavow file and goes as far as to call them potentially “unnecessary work…..

The other day I reported that Google is officially showing if a book supports audibooks and if so, they will link to the place you can listen to the audibook – typically on Audible…

Google’s John Mueller posted on Twitter that he can try to coordinate a live hangout with in person SEOs and webmasters if you are in Zurich and the timing works out…

Google’s John Mueller posted on Twitter that he is looking at what webmasters and SEOs would do with voice search query data within Google Search Console. John wrote:

I hear folks asking about voice search data in Search Console often…

The other day, Google announced a new penalty for AMP pages that have partial content with read more links that take you to the full content. We called it the AMP teaser penalty…

A couple months ago, Google hinted they would stop crawling and indexing content from the old AJAX crawling scheme, which was technically deprecated two years ago.

Well…