Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Gary Illyes from Google was asked about why he didn’t mention links in his desktop to mobile comparison tool post. He said that is because it is “close to impossible for you to check which links are actually deemed critical…

Google seems to have made a switch a few days ago where on mobile search they are now likely to serve featured snippets from pages that are powered by AMP. @thefke and @glenngabe were one of the first to notice this and I am able to replicate it…
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With the Google mobile friendly index still in progress on Google’s end…

It has been some time since we talked about Google App Indexing but John Lincoln spotted an interesting change for mobile search that brings up app indexing results on Android in Google…

It looks like Google has removed one of their previously documented structured data markups from their developer docs. Specifically, they have removed the Preferred Site Name option, it now 404s when you try to access it, but for now…

There is a number of interesting questions and answers around how Google handles removing or hiding or filtering duplicate content from the search results…

Dawn Anderson asked Google’s John Mueller if using the noreferrer or noopener attributes can hurt your Google rankings and SEO. The answer John responded with was “nope.” So there you have it…

Gary Illyes from Google said on Twitter this morning that Google has changed the way they think about Panda from five years ago. Gary wrote “we’ve changed the way we think about Panda.” He added, “what was true 5 or so years ago…

The Google Search Console Search Analytics reports are now back up to date with their normal two or so delay period. For the past 15 days or so, it was about a week delayed and now, finally this morning…

It seems like Google has two fewer sites to worry about when it comes to link schemes or manipulation. Forbes, Entrepreneur and Inc both have just started to add nofollow attributes to external links in their articles…

The noarchive tag will prevent Google from showing the Cached link for a page in their search results. But it does not prevent the page from ranking well in Google says John Mueller…

I am pretty serious about reporting on Google search algorithm updates despite Google not liking it or hating the automated tools that do it as well. But I think it can be helpful when diagnosing a site that was hit on a specific date…

Google’s John Mueller posted on Google+ some basic SEO advice for how to handle recurring events and updated items pages for search and users…

Do you use a hashtag or pound sign in your URL. For example the link URL is simply a hashtag or pound sign, one of these #. What should Google do with them…

A webmaster asked Google’s John Mueller if Google always crawls the home page of the web site before other pages. The answer John gave was no…

Did you ever wonder that if you blocked your images from being indexed by Google would it impact your core web content from also ranking in Google…

A couple days ago I wrote how Gary Illyes from Google doesn’t do private webmaster support and then this morning, John Mueller from Google basically said the complete opposite.

Here is John’s tweet:

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Last week we reported Google was pretty delayed in their Search Console data, specifically about a week delay in the Search Analytics reports. Normally there is a two-day delay but even today…

Earlier this month, Google’s John Mueller hinted about more data will be coming to the Google Search Console soon. This is coming with the new beta release of the tool…

I asked John Mueller of Google yesterday in a Google webmaster hangout at the 23:18 mark into the video how things are going with the mobile first index and if they have any updates for us all…