Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

The other day I reported how Google said there is no such thing as the top three ranking signals despite what may have been said before. I said it is likely because some queries weigh some signals more important than others…

A lot of SEOs and webmasters have been buzzing about chatbots…

Google’s John Mueller said that having a high shopping cart abandonment rate is not a specific issue with ranking in Google. It is not a ranking signal…

For the past couple years, Google has been trying to communicate that 301 and 302 redirects pass full PageRank…

Andrew Shotland asked Google’s John Mueller an interesting question around the fetch and render tool in the Google Search Console…

A year and a half ago, Google’s Andrey Lipattsev who has not been in the public eye since, listed off Google’s top three ranking factors as content, links and RankBrain. It was a fun time for us search reporters, as you can imagine…

At the Brighton SEO conference, Gary Illyes from Google said that the third party SEO or search ranking algorithm monitoring tools tend…

An SEO asked Google’s John Mueller if HTML ID attributes can help with SEO and John said “no” on Twitter.

To be honest, it is a bit hard to understand the question because of the english…

As everyone in our space is getting ready for the Google mobile-first index and Google has suggest that you should go responsive before the mobile-first index rollout…

One of the most common manual actions a site will receive in the Google Search Console is around malware or hacked website content. It is a growing issue and more and more sites are hit by this every single day…

Many webmasters and SEOs are obsessed with site speed, not just for their users satisfaction but also because Google seems to be obsessed with it as well. But XML sitemaps are not for users, it is for Google…

Google’s John Mueller responded to one complaint about a publisher trying to trick Google, saying that technique is “an old trick.” Of course, that implies whatever the trick is…

As you know, Google has this Jobs for Google feature and officially began supporting job posting schema to markup your job listings in search. Then in July they came out with reports for job listings in the Google Search Console Search Analytics repo…

Sometimes you see the most obvious questions posted to Googlers and you think, hmm, I wonder how many others don’t think this is obvious. In any event, when you change your content and HTML on a page, it can and often does…

Medium is a pretty popular online publishing platform where you can write and publish on the Medium domain and property…

Google has removed a feature within Google Search Console for mobile apps, specifically the fetch as Google feature…

Over the years I’ve seen webmasters and SEOs being concerned over boilerplate content…

John Mueller of Google said on Twitter that we should really ignore the cache date.

I’d ignore the cache date.

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Everyone I know is excited for the new Google Search Console Beta to be released to them, there is some added reporting functionality that more and more want to see. But not everyone has access to it yet…

The folks at Screaming Frog posted on Twitter a statement made by a developer telling their SEO team that they don’t need to set up 301 redirects because Google is able to figure it out automatically…