Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Over the years, SEOs and webmasters have tried to drive more attention to their listings in the search results by placing special characters in their title tags, URLs or meta descriptions…

Earlier this week, we reported that Google was potentially testing dropping the AMP logo from AMP powered mobile pages in the mobile Google search results…

Google has said time and time again, they want to rank the best and most relevant content and web site for the query…

In Google Search Console, there is a feature under the Fetch as Google tool to request indexing. When you click that…

Did you know that Google is willing to review random SEO agencies to see if their SEO practices are fair and within their guidelines? I didn’t think Google spent the time doing that…

Back in 2013, Matt Cutts of Google was clear that having a patent does not mean they use the patent material in their live search ranking algorithm. In fact…

As you know, many were hit by the Google Fred update that touched down around March 7th/8th – we even got Google to confirm the update which is rare…

Google’s John Mueller responded on Twitter that links from a page that gets a lot of traffic via Google is not any more valuable than links from a page that gets not as much traffic from Google. By definition, page traffic isn’t PageRank or other link…

Recently, Google added support for rich results for podcasts but that doesn’t mean Google can understand what you are saying in those audio files…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter this morning that those sites republishing news feeds should “consider noindexing them.” The full tweet was specifically in response to what to do with content published on your site from an Associated Press or Re…

Over the years I’ve seen many examples of really dumb moves made by SEOs. Some SEOs asked Google for advice while spamming Google, some email Google about buying links, some put all their spammy accounts in one search console account – but the list go…

I’ve been very interested in personalized search and Google for some time now. It use to be talked about way more in the past but these days, you barely hear anything about it…

As you know, back in 2014, Google released the HTTPS ranking boost to give a little ranking boost to URLs that went HTTPS. Well…

An SEO asked Google if they can rank in Google for a competitor’s keyword. John Mueller responded on Twitter saying…

Over the past day or so, there have been tons of complaints on Twitter and the Google Webmaster Help forums, too many to link to, saying the ability to fetch as Google and then submit the URL to the index was not working…

Google has released their webspam report for 2016, sharing some interesting data points. Such as that Google sent out 9 million messages to site owners

This is probably way obvious to most of you but hey, first time I’ve seen it asked. Dawn was bugging Gary Illyes of Google on Twitter about 404s and Gary said Google has no way of seeing what a user clicks over to…

Have you ever noticed that sometimes, Google shows a slightly different URL for your content in their search results? So maybe they show your normal URL with tracking parameters at the end? Or maybe something else but similar…

A few months ago, I covered the topic of how long does it take to rank well in Google. In a Google video on how to hire an SEO, Google said “in most cases, SEOs need four months to a year to help your business first implement improvements and then see…

I want you to check your own sites and/or client sites and let me know if you saw a huge 50% or higher decline on March 7th…