Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

An SEO asked Google’s John Mueller if HTML ID attributes can help with SEO and John said “no” on Twitter.

To be honest, it is a bit hard to understand the question because of the english…

As everyone in our space is getting ready for the Google mobile-first index and Google has suggest that you should go responsive before the mobile-first index rollout…

One of the most common manual actions a site will receive in the Google Search Console is around malware or hacked website content. It is a growing issue and more and more sites are hit by this every single day…

Many webmasters and SEOs are obsessed with site speed, not just for their users satisfaction but also because Google seems to be obsessed with it as well. But XML sitemaps are not for users, it is for Google…

Google’s John Mueller responded to one complaint about a publisher trying to trick Google, saying that technique is “an old trick.” Of course, that implies whatever the trick is…

As you know, Google has this Jobs for Google feature and officially began supporting job posting schema to markup your job listings in search. Then in July they came out with reports for job listings in the Google Search Console Search Analytics repo…

Sometimes you see the most obvious questions posted to Googlers and you think, hmm, I wonder how many others don’t think this is obvious. In any event, when you change your content and HTML on a page, it can and often does…

Medium is a pretty popular online publishing platform where you can write and publish on the Medium domain and property…

Google has removed a feature within Google Search Console for mobile apps, specifically the fetch as Google feature…

Over the years I’ve seen webmasters and SEOs being concerned over boilerplate content…

John Mueller of Google said on Twitter that we should really ignore the cache date.

I’d ignore the cache date.

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Everyone I know is excited for the new Google Search Console Beta to be released to them, there is some added reporting functionality that more and more want to see. But not everyone has access to it yet…

The folks at Screaming Frog posted on Twitter a statement made by a developer telling their SEO team that they don’t need to set up 301 redirects because Google is able to figure it out automatically…

Since Google released rich snippets, spammers have been trying to spam the rich snippets. Over the years, as far back as 2012, Google has been asking you to report these attempts to them. And yes, Google does take action on rich snippet spam…
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Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter the other day that crawl budget is technically used when Google tries to access 404/410 page not found URLs…

Mike Kilinski attended the annual Think Auto Google event in Toronto, Canada last week at that event, the head of Google Brain in Canada said that Google now uses click data for rankings…

As you know, Google is expanding the release of their beta Google Search Console reports. And although we shared many screen shots I wanted to share even more now that more people are sharing them online. Also, there is a lot of talk about “Indexed…
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Google has invited more beta testers to try out the new beta Google Search Console yesterday. There are tweets and mentions of the notification across the web and heck, I was even invited, which is surprising to me. Yea…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter just because your Google cache link is not showing up in the search results…

Just because you are a good player, play by the rules, you are an SEO angel – it does not mean you should rank number one or very well in the search results for whatever you want…