Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

The TravelAction schema is designed markup for to markup your HTML to show the “act of traveling from an fromLocation to a destination by a specified mode of transport, optionally with participants.” But this is not yet supported in search…

Google’s John Mueller responded to a question on Twitter asking if Google will penalize the other sites in your Google Search Console account if one of those sites got a penalty. John Mueller did not say no, he said it depends…

The folks over at RankRanger show in their tracker tool that AMP, accelerated mobile pages, has shown a spike in how often they show up now, compared to a few days ago…

This is a funny one, I spotted John Mueller of Google having to tell a webmaster/SEO that Google is not giving a special ranking boost to m-dot mobile sites…

Google’s John Mueller confirmed on Twitter that Google still supports PubSubHubbub, now known as WebSub. WebSub basically pushes content and changes…

One of the cool new features is the index coverage report that shows you lots of details about your index information within Google.
Now they added the ability to export…

Google’s John Mueller said at the 15:36 minute mark into the last Google hangout from Friday that if you are moving to HTTPs, you should move your whole site all at once…

John Mueller of Google said the other day in his hangout at the 1 hour and 13 minute mark that Googlebot still is not crawling in HTTP/2…

If you thought Google uses the preview you see in the fetch and render for search purposes…

Yesterday in the Google Hangout at the 21:05 mark into the video…

Earlier this month we reported that Google started to show AMP links for featured snippets in their search results. Well, the AMP icon is now less noticeable in this featured snippet box…

Google’s Gary Illyes said on Twitter that Google doesn’t train their algorithms to find spam by fetching and processing disavow files across the web…

A couple weeks ago, we reported that the head of Google Brain said that Google uses click data for rankings. I have the audio recording of him saying it but…

The other day I reported how Google said there is no such thing as the top three ranking signals despite what may have been said before. I said it is likely because some queries weigh some signals more important than others…

A lot of SEOs and webmasters have been buzzing about chatbots…

Google’s John Mueller said that having a high shopping cart abandonment rate is not a specific issue with ranking in Google. It is not a ranking signal…

For the past couple years, Google has been trying to communicate that 301 and 302 redirects pass full PageRank…

Andrew Shotland asked Google’s John Mueller an interesting question around the fetch and render tool in the Google Search Console…

A year and a half ago, Google’s Andrey Lipattsev who has not been in the public eye since, listed off Google’s top three ranking factors as content, links and RankBrain. It was a fun time for us search reporters, as you can imagine…

At the Brighton SEO conference, Gary Illyes from Google said that the third party SEO or search ranking algorithm monitoring tools tend…