Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

At SMX East, Gary Illyes from Google said that he wants to see Google to get to a place where they do not need structured data or schema…

Google has been promising more than 90 days worth of data in the Google Search Console, formerly Webmaster Tools, since 2013 and they have been teasing us with it over and over again since…

The other day, we reported that Gary Illyes from Google said that pruning content was not safe so I asked him about it at SMX East yesterday. Gary did say you could use this tactic in the past, back in 2015.

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As you know, I kind of got Google’s John Mueller to admit Google began the mobile first index roll out – although he said, he would bucket it more with the testing phase…

John Mueller from Google has a wonderful response to a question about duplicate content and how to measure how big of an issue it is on your web site. He posted it in the Google Webmaster Help forums…

One of the questions about the mobile first index from SMX East last night was about how the mobile first index rolls out. Gary Illyes from Google said he thinks it rolls out at the host level. So www.domain.com vs m.domain.com vs something.domain.co…

We’ve talked about page speed here a lot, but page speed and server response time are really two different things. According to Google’s documentation for their PageSpeed insights tool…

As many of you know, for years, Google would label hacked content in their search results with the this site may be hacked label. The solution is to patch up the hack and remove the hacked pages if they should not exist…

Let’s say you have an e-commerce site that sells to multiple countries and all the pages are written in English but you sell the product in different currencies based on the country the user is buying from…

Google responded to a webmaster asking if they can use ISO 3166-2 for their hreflang files saying you should probably stick with ISO 3166-1. Google’s documentation specifically says they support ISO 3166-1 and makes no mention of ISO 3166-2…

We all know that Danny Sullivan joined Google in part to help with communication issues with Google internally and the outside world. But that doesn’t mean Danny is yet ready to respond to questions.

Danny already shared stuff no one outside of Googl…

Sometimes I don’t get how people can simply ask Google questions about how to spam Google…

I am not sure what to make of John Mueller’s comments about PageRank related to using the old PageRank model for managing internal link structure. The exchange on Twitter asked Google’s John Mueller if the “original PageRank to model internal link weig…

Four months ago, we reported that Google will be bringing voice query data to Search Analytics within the Google Search Console reporting engine. But when Gary Illyes was asked about it just a week or so ago…

John Mueller of Google said on a Google webmaster hangout at the 38:30 mark into yesterday’s hangout that Google uses the same algorithm to rank the first page results that it does for the other pages in their search results…

Google’s John Mueller said in a webmaster hangout yesterday that soon enough Google may stop crawling and indexing that altogether.

It has been just shy a year since Google first announced their mobile first index initiative, where they would crawl the web from a mobile perspective first. Well, it seems Google has started, at least on a really limited basis…

Google’s John Mueller reminds webmasters on Twitter that when it comes to images, Google is slow at updating the URLs and changes.

That being said, John Mueller said make sure to use image URLs you can control…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that disabling the right click on your web pages and/or disabling the ability to select content on your web pages…

Since Google released their HTTPS ranking boost, SEOs and webmasters have been migrating their sites from HTTP to HTTPS. With that, we knew for years that the change of address tool does not support HTTPS migrations…