Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

SEOs are somewhat obsessed with the Google quality raters despite Google saying repeatedly that these consultant do not have direct access to change any of the rankings for any of the sites in their index…

Google’s John Mueller said that if you are redirecting users based on them having an iOS device or an Android device…

As you know, Google is working on a brand new look and feel and much more in a beta Google Search Console release where we posted screen shots. We even shared the beta URL, if you are in the beta the URL will work, if not, it won’t…

Google loves XML Sitemaps, it gives their bots an easy way to discover all your content. Even better, it gives webmasters a way to see how many of their URLs in their sitemap file were indexed and which URLs were not…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that going capital or lower case does not matter much when it comes to setting the country-region code in your XML sitemap files.

He said either “en-US” OR “en-us” are perfectly fine to use…

Google just announced that they are now adding badges to the image search results on Google app for Android and mobile web. These badges describe an image if it is a recipe, video, product of animated GIF. This way before you click on it…

With all the confusion around expandable or hidden content on mobile especially with the mobile first index coming eventually, it is no wonder we see so many questions around it…

Gary Illyes from Google responded to a tweet last week on Twitter mocking “SEO experts” who place massive amounts of text on their footer. He said those are the same SEO experts who complaint they were hit by some sort of update…

I am really not sure where these ideas come from, which is why I have stuff to write daily but this guy asked John Mueller if putting commas in title tags are okay or not. John…

Gary Illyes of Google was asked about sticky footers, if Google has an issue with them. Gary responded on Twitter saying “nah, I wouldn’t worry about that.” Meaning…

Google has added a new developer document page on removing AMP content from search. This was first spotted by Kenichi Suzuki, he posted it on Twitter.

I guess enough people asked, Google finally made a document telling webmasters the safe way to remo…

HTTPS in the Google search results continue to rise and rise. In fact, according to RankRanger’s Google’s feature tracker tool, 99% of the page one results they track have at least one or more HTTPS result within them…

The folks at RankRanger posted on Twitter two signals that Google is pushing the AMP growth internationally now.

AMP results are now showing way more often in the news box internationally…

Google announced on Twitter that there is a new filter available within Google Search Console’s Search Analytics report under the search appearance section for both “job listings” and “job details…

As you know, Google has been beta testing the new Google Search Console. We shared some screen shots of that new interface.

But more people are releasing more and more screen shots of the new beta interface…

The other day, I reported that many webmasters were noticing a decline in their average position metrics in the Google Search Console Search Analytics report. We thought it was a bug, but Google has now told us it is a feature change…

Everyone here knows that Google ignores the meta keywords tag and content within it. Since Google ignores it and it does not influence your Google rankings, you can spam and keyword stuff it all you want…

Bryson Meunier asked Gary Illyes of Google on Twitter are tools that generate readable content for humans from data “automatically generated content…

If you go to the Google Search Console and access your average position metric within the Google Search Analytics tool…

Google’s Gary Illyes confirmed on Twitter that Google doesn’t have a ranking signal that looks to see if a site has a trust seal on it and then gives the site a ranking benefit for having one…