Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Since Google released rich snippets, spammers have been trying to spam the rich snippets. Over the years, as far back as 2012, Google has been asking you to report these attempts to them. And yes, Google does take action on rich snippet spam…
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Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter the other day that crawl budget is technically used when Google tries to access 404/410 page not found URLs…

Mike Kilinski attended the annual Think Auto Google event in Toronto, Canada last week at that event, the head of Google Brain in Canada said that Google now uses click data for rankings…

As you know, Google is expanding the release of their beta Google Search Console reports. And although we shared many screen shots I wanted to share even more now that more people are sharing them online. Also, there is a lot of talk about “Indexed…
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Google has invited more beta testers to try out the new beta Google Search Console yesterday. There are tweets and mentions of the notification across the web and heck, I was even invited, which is surprising to me. Yea…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter just because your Google cache link is not showing up in the search results…

Just because you are a good player, play by the rules, you are an SEO angel – it does not mean you should rank number one or very well in the search results for whatever you want…

While most SEOs believe larger sites rank better in Google, John Mueller of Google said on Twitter that is not by design. He said just because there may be a correlation of big or large sites ranking better in Google…

Last month we reported that Google said their SEO starter guide is still relevant even though it was not updated since 2010. Well, I guess it was not relevant enough…

The folks at RankRanger spotted and posted on Twitter Google testing a new form of query expansion for related queries under the featured snippets. We saw this before about a year ago but it hasn’t come up much since…

Every wonder what the number one, most important, search ranking factor is in Google’s algorithms? Is it links? Is it content? Is it a special hidden meta tag…

In the past 24 to 48 hours I have been noticing an uptick in SEO and webmaster chatter around a possible Google search algorithm and ranking update…

I cannot believe I am writing this but Gizmodo published a story last week named Yes, Google Uses Its Power to Quash Ideas It Doesnât Likeâ”I Know Because It Happened to Me. The story was mostly about how Google uses their power to bully reporters…

Gary Illyes from Google was asked about why he didn’t mention links in his desktop to mobile comparison tool post. He said that is because it is “close to impossible for you to check which links are actually deemed critical…

Google seems to have made a switch a few days ago where on mobile search they are now likely to serve featured snippets from pages that are powered by AMP. @thefke and @glenngabe were one of the first to notice this and I am able to replicate it…
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With the Google mobile friendly index still in progress on Google’s end…

It has been some time since we talked about Google App Indexing but John Lincoln spotted an interesting change for mobile search that brings up app indexing results on Android in Google…

It looks like Google has removed one of their previously documented structured data markups from their developer docs. Specifically, they have removed the Preferred Site Name option, it now 404s when you try to access it, but for now…

There is a number of interesting questions and answers around how Google handles removing or hiding or filtering duplicate content from the search results…

Dawn Anderson asked Google’s John Mueller if using the noreferrer or noopener attributes can hurt your Google rankings and SEO. The answer John responded with was “nope.” So there you have it…