Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

While most SEOs believe larger sites rank better in Google, John Mueller of Google said on Twitter that is not by design. He said just because there may be a correlation of big or large sites ranking better in Google…

Last month we reported that Google said their SEO starter guide is still relevant even though it was not updated since 2010. Well, I guess it was not relevant enough…

The folks at RankRanger spotted and posted on Twitter Google testing a new form of query expansion for related queries under the featured snippets. We saw this before about a year ago but it hasn’t come up much since…

Every wonder what the number one, most important, search ranking factor is in Google’s algorithms? Is it links? Is it content? Is it a special hidden meta tag…

In the past 24 to 48 hours I have been noticing an uptick in SEO and webmaster chatter around a possible Google search algorithm and ranking update…

I cannot believe I am writing this but Gizmodo published a story last week named Yes, Google Uses Its Power to Quash Ideas It Doesnât Likeâ”I Know Because It Happened to Me. The story was mostly about how Google uses their power to bully reporters…

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…