Google Search Console Team Wants To Know Which Reports You Are Missing Most
We have been covering the Google Search Console a lot since the roll out of the new beta version. The theme I keep seeing come up time and time again is that the new version is missing too many reports, which doesn’t make it worthwhile using.
Honestly…
Chrome User Experience Report Now Shows Country Specific Data
With all the talk about the Google Page Speed Update and using tools like the PageSpeed Insights Tool to measure your page speed and make improvements…
Google: Translate Your Image Alt Tags As Well
Google’s John Mueller said that having different languages on the same page “makes it harder to determine which language is the primary language of a page.” You don’t want to make it harder for Google to understand your pages…
Google: We Don’t Use GPS Coordinates Schema In Search
Google’s John Mueller said in a video hangout a day or so ago that Google doesn’t use the GeoCoordinates…
Remove URLs Report In Google Search Console Under Maintenance
The remove URL tool report in Google Search Console “might not be available for a short time” according to Google’s data anomalies page. This is because Google is making “some improvements” to the report…
Stone Temple’s New Actions On Google For SEO Questions
Stone Temple and Eric Enge has put together a set of Actions on Google for Google Assistant and Google Home voice responses to your SEO queries. You can try it yourself by asking Google Assistant or your Google Home “Ask Stone Temple” followed by your…
SEO & Google Fight Over How Google Treats Subdomains vs Subdirectories
We are now off the 302 redirects fighting and now onto fighting about how Google handles subdirectories vs subdomains…
Google: You Don’t Need To Submit URLs To Us Monthly
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…
Google’s John Mueller Detailed SEO Advice To Webmaster Who Merged Four Sites
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…
Google Search Console Beta Live For Everyone Now
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…
Google Shows Pride Flag For 7 Deadly Sins Search Query
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…
GoogleBot Grows Taller: Reaches 12,140 Pixels High On Mobile & 9,307 Pixels High On Desktop
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…
Google Search Console Beta Sends Invites To More Webmasters & Adds Features
As you know, the new Google Search Console beta is rolling out to more people and yesterday…
Google: Site Splits Or Merges Take Longer Than Site Moves
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…
Google’s John Mueller: Be Yourself & Not Your Keywords
John Mueller, Google’s Search Trends Analyst said something meme worthy the other day in a Google webmaster hangout…
Google: You Can’t Judge Index Size By One Or Two Sites
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…
Is Your Site Still Not Listed In Google News After Bug?
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 Image Search Does Not Index Images From CSS
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…
Google PageSpeed Insights Unavailable Message
In many cases the report shows “unavailable” mostly for smaller sites that get less traffic that a larger site.