Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Gary Illyes from Google responded to a tweet last week on Twitter mocking “SEO experts” who place massive amounts of text on their footer. He said those are the same SEO experts who complaint they were hit by some sort of update…

I am really not sure where these ideas come from, which is why I have stuff to write daily but this guy asked John Mueller if putting commas in title tags are okay or not. John…

Gary Illyes of Google was asked about sticky footers, if Google has an issue with them. Gary responded on Twitter saying “nah, I wouldn’t worry about that.” Meaning…

Google has added a new developer document page on removing AMP content from search. This was first spotted by Kenichi Suzuki, he posted it on Twitter.

I guess enough people asked, Google finally made a document telling webmasters the safe way to remo…

HTTPS in the Google search results continue to rise and rise. In fact, according to RankRanger’s Google’s feature tracker tool, 99% of the page one results they track have at least one or more HTTPS result within them…

The folks at RankRanger posted on Twitter two signals that Google is pushing the AMP growth internationally now.

AMP results are now showing way more often in the news box internationally…

Google announced on Twitter that there is a new filter available within Google Search Console’s Search Analytics report under the search appearance section for both “job listings” and “job details…

As you know, Google has been beta testing the new Google Search Console. We shared some screen shots of that new interface.

But more people are releasing more and more screen shots of the new beta interface…

The other day, I reported that many webmasters were noticing a decline in their average position metrics in the Google Search Console Search Analytics report. We thought it was a bug, but Google has now told us it is a feature change…

Everyone here knows that Google ignores the meta keywords tag and content within it. Since Google ignores it and it does not influence your Google rankings, you can spam and keyword stuff it all you want…

Bryson Meunier asked Gary Illyes of Google on Twitter are tools that generate readable content for humans from data “automatically generated content…

If you go to the Google Search Console and access your average position metric within the Google Search Analytics tool…

Google’s Gary Illyes confirmed on Twitter that Google doesn’t have a ranking signal that looks to see if a site has a trust seal on it and then gives the site a ranking benefit for having one…

Google has explained crawl budget to use several months ago and truth is, the topic has kind of slowed down recently – which I am grateful for. But every now and then…

Last night on Search Engine Land I shared screen shots of the new beta version of the Google Search Console. Alan Bleiweiss sent us the screen shots of the new design.

The new design is not a surprise…

For years and years, Google has been trying to get away from having webmasters and SEOs focus on their PageRank score. They finally killed off toolbar PageRank a year ago but now, time and time again, people are selling “domain authority…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter the other day that Google’s crawlers, GoogleBot, crawls the web stateless, i.e. without cookies. This is something Google has said many times over the years, but I don’t think I ever covered this basic fact…
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I am a big fan of analogies, espesially funny ones so when I spotted Gary Illyes of Google use one to describe the difference between the Google Cache and the Fetch as Google tool in Google Search Console, I had to share it with you…

Google has posted in the Google Search Console data anomalies page that they have lost about 19 days worth of data for any new Google Search Console user who signed up between June 21, 2017 and July 10…

Aaron Bradly posted on Google+ that Google recently updated video structured data type to add support for image search. Google added “your video rich results can also display in image search on mobile devices…