Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Dawn Anderson, a really awesome SEO who thinks hard in most of what she does and says, posted an interesting chart…

Google has commented about the algorithm tracking tools before…

At SMX Advanced, Gary Illyes said that when you do a site move, so you get a brand new domain name and want to rebrand to that domain – it can take 3 months or so for Google to pick up on all the changes…

Here is an SEO question I’ve never seen before, which is rare. Someone asked on Twitter if Google won’t rank a web site as well in search if the business is based at a home residential address…

So January 2017 was the big mobile interstitial penalty from Google. On January 11, 2017, Google said it began rolling out but very few sites got hit, the ones that did got hit, got hit hard but the spread was minimal and sites that likely should have …

Another tidbit at SMX Advanced from Gary Illyes of Google, something he said a few months ago is that there is a huge opportunity to rank for keywords in non-English languages. He said there is a lack of content and web pages for non-English languages….

Despite Google saying they are not giving webmasters feature snippets analytics, Google did say they will give webmasters analytics on voice search queries related to their own content. Google has said this for over a year and even said it again a cou…

So nothing has changes with the HTTPS ranking boost Google announced back in 2014. It still works the same way…

Gary Illyes from Google said at SMX Advanced on stage that buying links from sites that sell guest blog posts and the like is the same thing as throwing money out of the window…

Sorry for covering so many things Gary Illyes of Google said at SMX Advanced…

Last month I reported that it looks like Google won’t release a feature in Google Search Console’s Search Analytics tool for featured snippet reporting. Well, it looks like I was right…

One of the more confusing things around the mobile first index is will page speed be a factor or not when it launches. Google has said no, it won’t be and then they said yes it will be.

It seems like Google is reworking how their measure page speed…..

Google’s Gary Illyes also said yesterday during the SMX mobile-first panel that while this whole mobile-first index is up in the air, they may decide to “smear” some desktop signals into the mobile-first index…

We know the Google mobile-first index isn’t launching any time soon and there were rumors it won’t go out in 2017 because hitting quality neutral has been a harder thing to achieve than they once thought…

We’ve known for some time now that Google sometimes selects to ignore spam and sometimes selects to penalize the spam (i.e. devalues vs demotes). The topic came up again when we covered how Gary from Google talked about how they ignore Forbe’s link sp…

John Mueller from Google answered a question about if Google’s search quality algorithms, such as Panda, Penguin and others…

Google’s Gary Illyes explained what he meant is the term “near duplicate content.” Gary posted it on Twitter saying near duplicate content can be thought of as “a piece of content that was slightly changed…

In the early days of when Google first introduced XML Sitemaps, Google also a collection of 3rd party sitemap generation solutions. That page now shows a notice that the top that reads “this Google Code project has been deprecated and is no longer main…

Maulik Panchal shared a screen shot on Twitter of the Google Posts feature, which enables businesses, organizations and personalities to share information in more real time within the knowledge panel in Google search…

The folks at RankRanger posted on Twitter that their Google features tracking tool noticed massive increases in the chances a featured snippet will show up at the top of the Google search results in many European regions…