Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Back on March 16th it seems Google started an algorithmic search ranking update that continued on for a week or so…

Last month, we asked you all to fill out a poll around the Google Fred update. We covered this update in extreme detail dating to March 7th or so and you can find many more…

Having breadcrumbs on your site is good for usability and is also a good SEO check item to have on your internal pages. But what if your breadcrumb was defined based on user click behavior and not based on where the page might be situated on your web…

Paul Bakaus, one of the more well-known faces behind Google’s AMP project, said a while back on Twitter that it is easier to tell if a page is slow versus telling if a page is fast. He said this after he said that the “whole area” of page speed “is t…

John Mueller of Google said in a webmaster video yesterday that Google’s search algorithms can and do share data from one algorithm to another. So if the Panda algorithm…

There is a lot more clarity from Google these days around crawl budget which is why I found it a bit surprising to see some SEOs ask if using a nofollow attribute on your links can hurt your crawl budget…

Google has quietly updated the quality raters guidelines (PDF) on May 11, 2017. No one seemed to notice but Glenn Gabe posted on Twitter that @ramesh_s_bisht noticed the update this morning…

Google’s John Mueller said this morning on Twitter that the Fetch and Render tool within the Google Search Console is the closest representation of what Google sees when they crawl your site. It is better for that purpose than the Google cache…
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Late last week, Google posted a warning against using articles for link building and many thought we were going to see mass link penalties shortly after. I even asked Gary Illyes from Google about that and he didn’t reply to me about it…

It is like every now and then a Googler has to say Google never had any Sandbox algorithm. They said it as recently in December. The Google Sandbox concept dates back to 2004. However, many SEOs felt there still was a Google Sandbox…

I love John Mueller’s one word answers. The Google representative was asked on Twitter if all ads above the fold are bad and John said “no.” Of course…

Yesterday, Google published a blog post named a reminder about links in large-scale article campaigns. Truth is, there is absolutely nothing new about what is written there…

There are many ways to control how Google crawls your web site but one of them is not the noindex tag. Google will still crawl your web site and web pages with the noindex tag on them. It needs to, in order to know what not to index. You can use robo…

SEOs for almost a decade have been using the term “over optimization” for one reason why a site might start to not do well in the Google search results. Some call it the over optimization penalty. Well…

We’ve seen over the years between Matt Cutts, John Mueller, Gary Illyes and other Googlers that they go off for periods of time debunking SEO/Google myths. Well…

Most of you know this already but Google’s domain diversity doesn’t have a feature that says a URL or site can only show on the first page of Google X number of times…

I see it from time to time where Googlers such as John Mueller, Gary Illyes and others might just tell someone that their rankings in Google are what is expected…

Google’s John Mueller said in a Google hangout the other day that Google’s team, likely the Search Console team…

Google’s John Mueller announced on Google+ that he is starting a “working-group” to help JavaScript based sites work well with search and Google. John wrote “how to make JavaScript-based sites work well with search is something I’ve been getting aske…

Last September, Google said they will penalize sites that do widget links that are not nofollowed. So if you have an embed this widget on your website and that widget carries along a “powered by with anchor text link” and you do not nofollow that link….