Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Technically, Google does not follow or pass any signals from a link on a page that has a nofollow attribute on them. If you are super paranoid about that link ever dropping the nofollow…

This is just one of those reminders that Google’s spider, GoogleBot, mostly crawls from the U.S., Mountain View…

I have a company name that people often spell with an incorrect space because it is two different words, that we put together as one. My company name is RustyBrick, one word, but capital R and B. People often break it up, or lowercase the B and it is…

A week ago we reported that the info command changed and we were unsure if it was a bug or a change on purpose…

Wouldn’t it be nice if Google communicated to you, maybe in Google Search Console, if your site has been migrated to the mobile first index? Even more so, wouldn’t it be nice for Google to tell you if your site is ready for the mobile first index or n…

There isn’t much new yet with the mobile first index at Google outside of what I reported out of SMX East but at PubCon yesterday…

I have a real data anomaly for you! The Google Search Console data anomalies page has updated the rich cards section to change the date on where they posted the…

John Mueller, a Google Webmaster Trends Analysts, said on Twitter that he will be at the Google offices in Mountain View, California (for the Top Contributor summit) and because of that, he is inviting local webmasters and SEOs to join him for a specia…

An SEO asked Google’s John Mueller if links to a specific image file will help the page that image is embedded on rank better. So for example, if you link to the image URL above, but not to this specific page where the image is embedded on…

Google’s John Mueller replied to a question around links found in JavaScript saying that once the link is rendered, Google will treat the link like how they treat any other link. John Mueller said on Twitter “a link is a link…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that fewer strong pages is often better than having many weak pages. John wrote “You can do a lot of things…

I saw an interesting tweet from Google’s John Mueller the other day, where he said that GoogleBot “renders with a very tall viewport, which skews some CSS (often images).” He said if you want to somewhat replicate what GoogleBot sees, “ry in Chrome de…

It looks like the info command on Google has changed what it shows in the search results. Instead of showing the page’s snippet followed by the cache, similar command, links and more…

I’d say the past month was a time where Google ramped up their testing of the mobile first index. In fact, they already rolled it out for a few sites they said. So we have a lot more around that below…

Google has sent out a survey to the Google Search Console beta testers asking them complete a detailed survey for the Index coverage report. The email says:

Thank you for using Search Console…

Google’s John Mueller confirmed on Twitter that technically, you do not need structured data for Google to apply rich snippets in the search results to your site…

The other day at SMX East, Gary Illyes from Google stirred the pot with SEOs by saying pruning content is not a good strategy to help with Panda issues. So Glenn Gabe submitted this question to John Mueller of Google to get his take on how Gary answer…

Over two years ago, I reported how you can use fetch and render with the submit to index feature to expedite indexing of that specific page…

Some folks might think that Google requires that when you use hreflang and make a multilingual web site, that each page that is translated from one language to another must be done word-for-word. That is absolutely not the case…

Google announced that going to a specific Google ccTLD will no longer change how Google shows you search results. Instead, Google is going to detect where you are, no matter the ccTLD you are on…