Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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…

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…