Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Yesterday, John Mueller from Google posted on Twitter a notice to all SEOs that they should embrace JavaScript and help JavaScript developers learn SEO. In short…

Google’s John Mueller said that while GoogleBot generally crawls documents “without an accept-language header” it is not a good idea to use the user-agent language setting to serve content.

This is in response to a webmaster who asked about using it…..

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that the size of your CSS file generally doesn’t have a negative impact on your rankings in Google. He said Google can handle ”

Which is better, to have a www or not to have the www to start you domain name…

We cover redirects here a lot, I mean a lot, and Google has documented a lot of these things for us around redirects but often…

Gary Illyes from Google said on Twitter in one word that “no” adding a disavow to a site won’t necessarily hurt that site from ranking…

On Friday afternoon, Gary Illyes from Google posted on Twitter that Google has published new documents on rendering and debugging. The new docs…

Carrie Haggerty asked Google’s John Mueller a question I’ve never seen before, asking if shadow DOMs are okay with GoogleBot and if Google can index the content…

Google has updated their quality raters guidelines on July 27, 2017. Previously it was updated on May 11, 2017 with some smaller changes and then the bigger changes on March 14, 2017 with the offensive, upsetting…

Over three years ago, Matt Cutts stepped away from Google eventually joining the government workforce and officially resigning as every one expected to happen over the months.
But Matt is still offering webmasters SEO advice.

Last time we reported this, I think, was when Google was able to crawl 10 megabytes per page. Well now that is up to a couple hundred megabytes per page.

As you know, the new Google Search Console beta is in the works and Google actually admitted to it the other day. Yesterday…

In September 2010, about seven years ago, Google released their “Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide”…

SEOs are somewhat obsessed with the Google quality raters despite Google saying repeatedly that these consultant do not have direct access to change any of the rankings for any of the sites in their index…

Google’s John Mueller said that if you are redirecting users based on them having an iOS device or an Android device…

As you know, Google is working on a brand new look and feel and much more in a beta Google Search Console release where we posted screen shots. We even shared the beta URL, if you are in the beta the URL will work, if not, it won’t…

Google loves XML Sitemaps, it gives their bots an easy way to discover all your content. Even better, it gives webmasters a way to see how many of their URLs in their sitemap file were indexed and which URLs were not…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that going capital or lower case does not matter much when it comes to setting the country-region code in your XML sitemap files.

He said either “en-US” OR “en-us” are perfectly fine to use…

Google just announced that they are now adding badges to the image search results on Google app for Android and mobile web. These badges describe an image if it is a recipe, video, product of animated GIF. This way before you click on it…

With all the confusion around expandable or hidden content on mobile especially with the mobile first index coming eventually, it is no wonder we see so many questions around it…