Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Google’s John Mueller confirmed yesterday in a hangout at the 15:38 mark that Google is indeed testing the mobile first index in the live search results. He did not explain what percentage of searchers are seeing these live test results but I have to …

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that Google ignores the rel=shortlink link attribute.

Th proposed usage of this is by adding rel=”shortlink” to a hyperlink…

This past month was filled with many many Google algorithm shifts, ranking changes, tools going nuts and chatter at all times high. We saw lots of ranking changes last week which Google didn’t really confirm. Then the week of September 15th or so and…

With no surprise, Google has announced they are moving away from the first click free program, which is how Google handled paywalled content in search for a decade with what they are calling “flexible sampling.”

Flexible sampling is offered in two for…

What if you serve GoogleBot one title tag and GoogleBot Mobile a different title tags/attributes? Google’s John Mueller said that Google would likely just ignore it…

Back in 2014, Matt Cutts formerly of Google talked about meta data in images and basically said they reserve the right to use it, that Google is able to parse it out but did not comment if they use it for rankings or display or both…

Google’s John Mueller in a webmaster hangout earlier this month said at the 8:30 mark into the video that just because you rank well in one Google regions, it does not mean you will rank well in another…

The TravelAction schema is designed markup for to markup your HTML to show the “act of traveling from an fromLocation to a destination by a specified mode of transport, optionally with participants.” But this is not yet supported in search…

Google’s John Mueller responded to a question on Twitter asking if Google will penalize the other sites in your Google Search Console account if one of those sites got a penalty. John Mueller did not say no, he said it depends…

The folks over at RankRanger show in their tracker tool that AMP, accelerated mobile pages, has shown a spike in how often they show up now, compared to a few days ago…

This is a funny one, I spotted John Mueller of Google having to tell a webmaster/SEO that Google is not giving a special ranking boost to m-dot mobile sites…

Google’s John Mueller confirmed on Twitter that Google still supports PubSubHubbub, now known as WebSub. WebSub basically pushes content and changes…

One of the cool new features is the index coverage report that shows you lots of details about your index information within Google.
Now they added the ability to export…

Google’s John Mueller said at the 15:36 minute mark into the last Google hangout from Friday that if you are moving to HTTPs, you should move your whole site all at once…

John Mueller of Google said the other day in his hangout at the 1 hour and 13 minute mark that Googlebot still is not crawling in HTTP/2…

If you thought Google uses the preview you see in the fetch and render for search purposes…

Yesterday in the Google Hangout at the 21:05 mark into the video…

Earlier this month we reported that Google started to show AMP links for featured snippets in their search results. Well, the AMP icon is now less noticeable in this featured snippet box…

Google’s Gary Illyes said on Twitter that Google doesn’t train their algorithms to find spam by fetching and processing disavow files across the web…

A couple weeks ago, we reported that the head of Google Brain said that Google uses click data for rankings. I have the audio recording of him saying it but…