Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Yesterday we reported that the data that comes out of the web interface and API for Search Analytics within the Google Search Console are the same for the most part…

Did you know getting links from spammy sites is different from getting unnatural links…

Ever see a spike in the 404 errors reported in Google Search Console’s crawl error report? Espesially from URLs that have been 404ed for ages…

Google’s John Mueller said that the Google Search Console API does not do any data sampling. He said it uses the same backend data as you would get in the web user interface. He did add that the API does have limits but added there is no sampling of d…

Back in May 2016, a year ago, we reported some people seeing a filter in the Search Analytics tool in Google Search Console…

The other week, we spotted Google showing a job portal search results set in their web results. It was an experiment that Google would not confirm outside of saying they are always testing things…

Dan Shure asked Google’s John Mueller on Twitter if the Google might be adding to the Google Search Console’s Search Analytics tool even more advanced filters. Specifically…

A couple weeks ago, Gary Illyes from Google posted on Twitter saying “I’m often wrong.” I let that one slide and decided not to cover it with a title saying “Google says they are often wrong,” or something like that…

Gary Illyes from Google said on Twitter that simply adding a video to your web page or web pages won’t help that page rank better. Gary wrote “having a video on your page will absolutely not help you rank better in web search…

On April 23rd, a webmaster went to the Google Webmaster Help forums because his site’s home page was not being fully indexed and kept on dropping out of the index. The question really baffled a lot of SEOs…

Google’s John Mueller said this week in a Google Hangout at the 25:05 mark into the video that Google may decide to release the mobile first index in batches. As you know…

I’ve seen this a lot, where websites will try to add value to their site in tons of industries, be it retail, real estate, medical and so on by taking two or more affiliate data feeds, mixing them together to add different sources of information on the…

Yesterday, Google’s John Mueller sent out an email to a number of Search Console beta testers asking if they are interested in trying out some new AMP…

So we know Google has told us before that you cannot optimize for RankBrain, that there is no RankBrain score. RankBrain is more of a query thing where Google tries to better understand the searcher’s intent with the query and brings back documents ba…

It is that time of the month again, the monthly Google webmaster report where I summarize the more important Google webmaster/SEO related topics of the past 30 days or so. In short, the biggest items that you should be aware of include the Owl update….

Google’s John Mueller responded on Twitter about if Google forgets about links over time, in which he responded “we have a lot of storage.” That, to me…

About a month ago, we reported that Ashley Madison may have been penalized by Google in search. We showed how their rankings and traffic plummeted for months…

Everyone knows that you should check the history of a domain name before you buy it. But what if you did, you looked at the domain name history, the wayback machine, and other metrics but didn’t have access to the Google Search Console messages…
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John Mueller of Google said on Twitter that HTML validation “pretty much doesn’t matter” for ranking in Google. This not new news, in fact…

few weeks ago, Google began upping how many images they show in the featured snippets box and we saw more feature snippets…