Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Gary Illyes from Google said on Twitter this morning that Google has changed the way they think about Panda from five years ago. Gary wrote “we’ve changed the way we think about Panda.” He added, “what was true 5 or so years ago…

The Google Search Console Search Analytics reports are now back up to date with their normal two or so delay period. For the past 15 days or so, it was about a week delayed and now, finally this morning…

It seems like Google has two fewer sites to worry about when it comes to link schemes or manipulation. Forbes, Entrepreneur and Inc both have just started to add nofollow attributes to external links in their articles…

The noarchive tag will prevent Google from showing the Cached link for a page in their search results. But it does not prevent the page from ranking well in Google says John Mueller…

I am pretty serious about reporting on Google search algorithm updates despite Google not liking it or hating the automated tools that do it as well. But I think it can be helpful when diagnosing a site that was hit on a specific date…

Google’s John Mueller posted on Google+ some basic SEO advice for how to handle recurring events and updated items pages for search and users…

Do you use a hashtag or pound sign in your URL. For example the link URL is simply a hashtag or pound sign, one of these #. What should Google do with them…

A webmaster asked Google’s John Mueller if Google always crawls the home page of the web site before other pages. The answer John gave was no…

Did you ever wonder that if you blocked your images from being indexed by Google would it impact your core web content from also ranking in Google…

A couple days ago I wrote how Gary Illyes from Google doesn’t do private webmaster support and then this morning, John Mueller from Google basically said the complete opposite.

Here is John’s tweet:

Sure…

Last week we reported Google was pretty delayed in their Search Console data, specifically about a week delay in the Search Analytics reports. Normally there is a two-day delay but even today…

Earlier this month, Google’s John Mueller hinted about more data will be coming to the Google Search Console soon. This is coming with the new beta release of the tool…

I asked John Mueller of Google yesterday in a Google webmaster hangout at the 23:18 mark into the video how things are going with the mobile first index and if they have any updates for us all…

Google’s John Mueller confirmed on Twitter that Google will pick one of the canonicals if the ones you set conflict. Meaning, if you send two or more different canonical signals to Google…

Google Search Console has a remove URL feature that lets you quickly and temporarily remove content from Google search. There is a status column in the tool to tell you if the request was completed (i.e. removed), cancelled…

Google’s Gary Illyes, a webmaster trends analyst at Google who is designed to help around the communication between Google and webmasters said on Twitter a few weeks ago that he does not provide private support…

Google has posted a “note” in the Google Search Console of “an internal logging issue” which may cause the numbers in the Search Analytics reports to “see a very slight decrease…

John Mueller from Google posted on Twitter a poll asking how often you use Google Search Console. The poll currently has over 300 responses, but lets get that poll to over a 1…

Bloomberg reported Friday afternoon that Google is testing a new subscription tool for news publishers in Google News “boost subscriptions for news publishers.” There are three changes coming…

If you login to Google Search Console and try to check your Google Search Analytics report, you will notice that the normal two-day delay in that data is now a five-day delay…