Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

You can now search for [mobile friendly] in Google and Google will give you a box at the top of the page letting you test any URL to see if it is mobile friendly. Here is a screen shot:

This is the same as the mobile friendly testing tool but direc…

The other day, Google’s John Mueller was asked by an SEO named Torben what the cut off was for the fetch as Google feature. John Mueller responded on Twitter that he knows there is a cut off but was not sure what the number was. So Torben tested it a…

Google’s John Mueller confirmed on Twitter that GoogleBot, Google’s web crawler…

In a hangout from this morning, Google’s John Mueller was asked how Google handles a page that you applied a canonical to but also has a noindex on it. Does that page pass…

Google’s John Mueller was asked in this morning’s hangout at the 13:05 mark into the video about disclosing the number of quality algorithms they have running in search today…

Over the past 48 hours, some webmasters who use Google Search Console may have seen a bunch of new verification emails sent by the tool to their inbox. Some have reported receiving up to a 1…

Back in 2007, Google officially went on record, instructing webmasters to block their search results from being indexed by Google. Ever since then…

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”…