Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

As many of you know, for years, Google would label hacked content in their search results with the this site may be hacked label. The solution is to patch up the hack and remove the hacked pages if they should not exist…

Let’s say you have an e-commerce site that sells to multiple countries and all the pages are written in English but you sell the product in different currencies based on the country the user is buying from…

Google responded to a webmaster asking if they can use ISO 3166-2 for their hreflang files saying you should probably stick with ISO 3166-1. Google’s documentation specifically says they support ISO 3166-1 and makes no mention of ISO 3166-2…

We all know that Danny Sullivan joined Google in part to help with communication issues with Google internally and the outside world. But that doesn’t mean Danny is yet ready to respond to questions.

Danny already shared stuff no one outside of Googl…

Sometimes I don’t get how people can simply ask Google questions about how to spam Google…

I am not sure what to make of John Mueller’s comments about PageRank related to using the old PageRank model for managing internal link structure. The exchange on Twitter asked Google’s John Mueller if the “original PageRank to model internal link weig…

Four months ago, we reported that Google will be bringing voice query data to Search Analytics within the Google Search Console reporting engine. But when Gary Illyes was asked about it just a week or so ago…

John Mueller of Google said on a Google webmaster hangout at the 38:30 mark into yesterday’s hangout that Google uses the same algorithm to rank the first page results that it does for the other pages in their search results…

Google’s John Mueller said in a webmaster hangout yesterday that soon enough Google may stop crawling and indexing that altogether.

It has been just shy a year since Google first announced their mobile first index initiative, where they would crawl the web from a mobile perspective first. Well, it seems Google has started, at least on a really limited basis…

Google’s John Mueller reminds webmasters on Twitter that when it comes to images, Google is slow at updating the URLs and changes.

That being said, John Mueller said make sure to use image URLs you can control…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that disabling the right click on your web pages and/or disabling the ability to select content on your web pages…

Since Google released their HTTPS ranking boost, SEOs and webmasters have been migrating their sites from HTTP to HTTPS. With that, we knew for years that the change of address tool does not support HTTPS migrations…

So Danny Sullivan has only been at Google as an employee for a minute and already shared something I had no idea Google did…

Did Google’s Gary Illyes say on Twitter that an affiliate site is not a quality site…

Here is a thread from a few months ago, but still pretty interesting where Barry Adams, an SEO…

Google’s John Mueller answered a question around how Cyrillic script and those special characters and/or accent marks on characters, impacts your rankings in Google. The short answer, at least on how I understand it from John…

Often you will see dates in the search results snippets when blog or news related content shows up in the organic Google search results…

Gary Illyes from Google said at the State of Search conference that from a Google perspective…

Gary Illyes from Google said at the State of Search conference the other day that you are better off having comments and reactions to your content directly on your site than on third-party sites, like social networks…