Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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…

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…