Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

As you know, in May, Google began rolling out a job search feature in Google Search. Shortly after, they announced the job posting schema which was being tested for some time…

Go to Google and search for [school holidays] and at the top you will see a featured snippet, which now includes both the textual answer and an image. If you see what I do…

As many of you know, since you are advanced technical SEOs, /page and /page.html technically are different URLs and different pages. But often, web servers are configured to make the page the same, so if you go to /page or /page…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that is not always the best cast to redirect users (or bots) by the location of the IP address of that user or bot. He said it can often not only “break indexing” but also “frustrate users.”

As you know, most of …

Back in the old days, Google used the location of the server and ccTLD to figure out if your site should be ranked in a specific localized version of Google. So if you had a .fr and your server was based in France…

John Mueller of Google said on Twitter that if you have an exact match domain, aka EMD, it doesn’t give you a magic ranking bonus in Google. John said “there’s no magic EMD bonus…

John Mueller of Google said on Twitter that if you have an exact match domain, aka EMD, it doesn’t give you a magic ranking bonus in Google. John said “there’s no magic EMD bonus…

John Mueller of Google had to say in a Google Webmaster Help thread that adding a YouTube video to your page will not make the page high quality by itself. Videos from YouTube on your pages won’t give you a ranking boost or show Google that the page i…

John Mueller of Google had to say in a Google Webmaster Help thread that adding a YouTube video to your page will not make the page high quality by itself. Videos from YouTube on your pages won’t give you a ranking boost or show Google that the page i…

I have heard time and time again from SEOs that they don’t like to push out too much new content on a web site all at once…

Back in November of last year, Gary Illyes from Google said content hidden in tabs is okay in the mobile-first world. Well…

It was a pretty hectic month in the Google SEO/search world. Despite Google claiming they would confirm major updates – we did have a major update on 6/25 which they call random chatter and won’t confirm. I did try to analyze the update but came up …

Since the early days of SEO, SEOs have been looking for anything to tweak on page to impact their rankings – including using the bold tag on your text. If you want to emphasis words on your page…

Yesterday, Google began sending out new AMP errors for video embeds done wrong with AMP. The errors read “Missing embedded video on AMP page for” and listsYesterday, Google began sending out new AMP errors for video embeds done wrong with AMP. The erro…

You and I know that Google Search Console is often a few days lagged but did you know that it can take 4-6 days for a new verified profile to start showing data in Google Search Console. Often I see that happen in less than three days but sometimes no…

An interesting question was asked in the last Google hangout with John Mueller at the 21:16 mark into the video. The question was around controlling or influencing Google to index the page of content that is embedding the iframe over the source of tha…

Rabin posted on Twitter “Google can and on many instances will rank a page for query even if the query is not present on that page. @methode #nobrainerfriday.” In which, Gary Illyes from Google responded to saying “true…

Did you know Google’s SafeSearch filter is not set at a site level but rather a URL by URL basis…

Google has updated the Test My Site feature in Google with a new user interface and design, plus they are bold enough to show you how many visitors you are losing because of your slow site speed and how you compare to competitors…

I often see SEOs, webmasters and site owners complaining that their competitors are building spammy links, buying links, doing PBNs and more and yet their competitor ranks well and is doing excellent in the Google results…