Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

What happens when you have invalid code, or attributes that mean nothing, or you have a typo in your attributes in your code? How does Google handle it…

Google’s John Mueller said the other day on Twitter that Google “definitely” scores or has different calculations and formulas for internal vs external links and signals…

There are two primary ways to markup your pages with structured data to help Google power your rich cards / rich snippets. The best way is to use on-page code markup, schema, to markup your pages as we discussed yesterday…

In 2012, Google launched the data highlighter tool to give less technical webmasters a way to communicate markup of a page or group of pages …

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter this morning that Google doesn’t really care much about the priority field in the XML Sitemap…

John Mueller of Google said on Twitter that Google will count the same URL in different sitemap files separately…

A webmaster asked John Mueller of Google if it is cloaking or against Google’s guidelines to direct GoogleBot to the fastest server available to render the content on the web site…

Sometimes I get to step back and explain a basic SEO topic…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that URL structure is “not so much” important, rating it a 1 out of 7 – whatever that means. He said the bigger concern is changing URLs can take Google time to pick up on and pass signals from. So stick with yo…

An SEO asked Google’s John Mueller why his rich cards (rich snippets) aren’t showing up in search. John responded with three possible reasons over Twitter…

Aleyda Solis posted on Twitter that the Google Search Console structured data report now has more detail. She pointed out that in the product report, it has new fields for name, price, brand…

Google’s John Mueller posted on Google+ an overview of how to remove your staging server from Google and then the best way to block it going forward. Some call it a staging server, some a development server, some a testing server or some have all of t…

Yesterday we reported that Google added a mobile page testing tool to search, right in the search results page. In April…

You can now search for [mobile friendly] in Google and Google will give you a box at the top of the page letting you test any URL to see if it is mobile friendly. Here is a screen shot:

This is the same as the mobile friendly testing tool but direc…

The other day, Google’s John Mueller was asked by an SEO named Torben what the cut off was for the fetch as Google feature. John Mueller responded on Twitter that he knows there is a cut off but was not sure what the number was. So Torben tested it a…

Google’s John Mueller confirmed on Twitter that GoogleBot, Google’s web crawler…

In a hangout from this morning, Google’s John Mueller was asked how Google handles a page that you applied a canonical to but also has a noindex on it. Does that page pass…

Google’s John Mueller was asked in this morning’s hangout at the 13:05 mark into the video about disclosing the number of quality algorithms they have running in search today…

Over the past 48 hours, some webmasters who use Google Search Console may have seen a bunch of new verification emails sent by the tool to their inbox. Some have reported receiving up to a 1…

Back in 2007, Google officially went on record, instructing webmasters to block their search results from being indexed by Google. Ever since then…