Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Google announced they will start taking punitive action against AMP pages that show teaser or partial content, with a link to see the full content on the main non-AMP page…

One thing that Gary Illyes of Google said at SMX East a few weeks ago that did not drive much attention, but a note I wrote down while on the stage with him was that the co-founder of Google, Larry Page…

Google has said time and time again that structured data, markup, schema, etc does not help you rank better in Google, all it does it help Google markup the search results with richer details for your snippets…

Google posted on the Search Console data anomalies page that they fixed a bug with the content mismatch errors report within the AMP, accelerated mobile pages, section…

Elena from Google posted in the Google News Help forums that they have made an adjustment to their system and thus to properly track all your Google News referral sources you must add news.url.google.com to the list.

So referrals from Google News will…

Yesterday, Google’s John Mueller answered a question around Google’s Gary Illyes saying you don’t need to disavow for algorithms. John basically confirmed what Gary said…

SEMrush, the popular SEO toolset company, have released their 2017 study on Google ranking factors, which they believe matter most to rank well in Google…

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…