Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Google’s John Mueller said that if Google is not convinced that there are new and important content to index on your site, then it won’t use the sitemap file on your site. Just because you have a sitemap file, it does not mean Google will index all the…

The Google Search Console page indexing report seems to be missing a chunk of data. The missing data is from December 15th and earlier, but we do have data from December 15th (14th) through today.

Google’s John Mueller said that he discourages large sites from force indexing its pages to Google Search. He said on a comment on LinkedIn, “I strongly recommend not relying on trying to force indexing.”

Google’s John Mueller responded to a concern about having bad title tags and how that might impact your site in Google Search. He said on Bluesky “I don’t think our systems have a “we don’t like this one guy’s titles” filter.”

The other day, Google released the Google Search Console AI-powered configuration tool and we continued to wonder when the other features, like branded queries and the social channels would go live. Well, Google’s John Mueller confirmed Google is stil…

Google has finally fully rolled out the Google Search Console AI-powered configuration tool. Google wrote on LinkedIn, “The Search Console’s new AI-powered configuration is now available to everyone! Have you already tried it?”

Google is losing one of its main sources of information for its Knowledge Graph, the CIA World Factbook. This was a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency between 1962 and 2026 with almanac-style information about the countries …

A few weeks ago, we reported Google was exploring ways to allow sites to opt out of showing up in Google’s AI features, like AI Mode and AI Overviews. Google’s Sulina Connal said at the FT Strategies News in the Digital Age conference that this is a “h…

Google’s John Mueller warned one site owner not to load “not available” in the JavaScript before the actual content that loads is available. It can lead Google to believe the page does not exist, preventing indexing and ranking in Google Search.

We covered the topic of markdown files before but now we have more commentary from official representatives from Google and Bing on the topic. In short, they call markdown files messy, it can cause issues with finding errors, cause more crawl load and …

Last November and December, Google announced a slew of new features for Google Search Console. But it seems like most of us still do not have access to those features.

Google’s John Mueller said he still recommends you have visible anchor text for your links in order to “provide more context for search engines.” Don’t just use title elements in the link attribute; make sure the link has actual visible anchor text.

Earlier this month, we reported that Google updated two of its help documents around Google’s crawler file size limits. Well, Google made a clarification to one of those documents the other day after some confusion within the SEO industry.

A thread at Reddit asked if a one-year-old website can beat a four-year-old website in SEO and perform better in Google Search. John Mueller from Google answered with his classic “it depends.”

Google may have hit those self-promotional and self-serving listicle articles in one of the more recent unconfirmed Google search ranking updates. Lily Ray dug into a pattern she spotted with these types of pieces of content, mostly in the SaaS space,…

Google’s John Mueller responded to a question on the pros and cons of serving raw markdown pages to LLM crawlers and bots. John didn’t say much but he did list a number of concerns and things you should be on top of, if you do go down that avenue.

We have known for a long time that Google can crawl web pages up to the first 15MB but now Google updated some of its help documentation to clarify that it will crawl the first 64MB of a PDF file and the first 2MB of other supported file types.

Google’s John Mueller said that when it comes to AI Search and the changes that come with that, Google’s core search algorithms, spam detection methods, spam policies, and other search systems do not fundamentally change.

Gary Illyes, along with Martin Splitt, of Google posted a podcast explaining the top crawling challenges Google noticed amongst its 2025 year of crawling. The top challenges Google had with crawling included faceted navigation, action parameters, irrel…

Google’s John Mueller said he would “caution against assuming that you need to do this level of analysis for all URLs on a website in order to achieve optimal SEO” when it comes to reviewing bad redirects or CSP settings. Why, because bad redirects or …