Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Google has updated many of their structured data developer docs yesterday. Aaron Bradley spotted it and posted about the changes in detail on Google+.

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Google again said they do not use Google Analytics data for their search ranking algorithm. Gary Illyes from Google had to say it again…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that you should use a 301 redirect really only when there is a one to one relationship between the URL you are redirecting from and the URL you are redirecting it to…

Google has been expanding their featured snippets over the past year or so, not just in the US but also in the EU. In a video hangout with Google’s John Mueller…

Just in case you thought Google and Bing share the same index of the web – you’d be wrong. John Mueller stated the obvious on Twitter this morning. John said “we don’t share indexing with other search engines…

Google’s Gary Illyes said on Twitter this morning that you can prepare for the mobile-first index which likely isn’t launching until next year by looking for noindex directives and faulty redirects…

This is probably common sense to most of you but if you are using the Google Search Console API it is recommended that you refresh or redownload the previous day of data to make sure you have the most complete set of information…

Do you use the parameter handling feature within the Google Search Console interface…

It has been some time since we talked about Panda here and I am sure most of you are happy about that. But since Gary Illyes from Google brought it up yesterday on Twitter…

So some one asked John Mueller of Google if it is okay to use checkmark characters, i.e. â”, in your title tags. The question was would it make the title tag look more readable.

John responded that no…

Gary Illyes from Google said on Twitter that he doesn’t have rights or clearance to apply manual actions to web sites. That means…

Google loves a site with good navigation and good user experience…

Google’s John Mueller said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that Google may decide to “skip URLs that repeat the same path element many times…

Go to Google and search for [spinner] and Google will give you an interactive fidget spinner. Just when you thought the craze was over…

Dawn Anderson followed up on a topic around what is near duplicate content with Google’s Gary Illyes – asking if it is similar to content stitching and quilting. As Dawn suspected, Gary said no…

John Mueller of Google said the other day on a Google hangout on YouTube at the 25:16 mark that if you do plan on migrating from an m-dot (i.e. http://m.domain.com) to a responsive mobile friendly design, then it is best to do it before the mobile firs…

As you all know, Google launched Google for jobs at Google I/O a couple months ago after being caught testing job search features in search before that.

We also spotted a new schema for job postings that Google didn’t comment on.

Well, now…

So after Google suggested you should do your m-dot migration to responsive before the mobile first index, SEOs had some questions. They wanted more information on when this mobile-first index was launching because it is a big job to do this m-dot tran…

One webmaster asked Google’s John Mueller how does one know if Google is using their sitemap…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that the mobile first index won’t have a specific launch date. Instead…