Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Google is still working hard at switching over to their mobile first index and we are hopeful that it will launch in 2017, but those chances don’t look likely. When they do…

We know capital letters in URLs don’t necessarily hurt your rankings and we also know that using caps in your content doesn’t convey emotions and thus impact your rankings.

On the flip side…

There are some really paranoid folks out there, those that think if they post anything publicly about their web sites, it might lead to a Google penalty. Of course…

Yesterday we reported that featured snippets can source images from different content sources, so the content they scrape can be on site A, while the image they show in that scraped content can be from site B…

Google’s John Mueller responded with a resounding “no” when he was asked if domain age matters for ranking in Google’s search results. John responded on Twitter to the question by simply saying “no” and adding no more detail…

An interesting question was posed to Google’s Gary Illyes on Twitter asking if “internal nofollow links devalue the page that it’s on…

Some of the responses I am seeing from John Mueller of Google are funny this week. In response to a question from a novice SEO about how many H1, header tags, should he use on a single page, John said on Twitter as many as he wants…

Google’s featured snippets are now capable of using a different image source from the article content source it used for the answer. For example…

Last week…

Back in December 2016, we reported that Google now uses product schema for image search results. This was discovered by Aaron Bradley and we shared some screen shots of it in action.

Yesterday…

You and I know that the featured snippets that come up in Google, espesially for the more generic queries, can rotate between different sites often. One day your site might be displayed for a featured snippet and then the next…

On Friday morning, the Google Search Console link report starting bugging out, where it showed “no data available” in the link report for many. Now, that bug spread to virtually all webmasters in their link report. This is not an issue for your site….

Go to Google and search for [submit URL to Google] and Google will place a box at the top of the search results that lets you plug in any URL you want and submit it to Google for indexing…

Do you often do disavow link pruning? Well, maybe you should? Gary Illyes from Google said on Twitter that if you see that your…

Google’s John Mueller addressed the question of why they don’t disclose most Google algorithm updates and changes in this mornings Google hangout not just once…

In October, during the US elections, Google released fact check schema for Google News in the US. Now…

Gary Illyes from Google said on Twitter that bounce rate is simply not a good ranking signal for Google to use in their ranking algorithms. He said “bounce rate is not a good signal…

John Mueller from Google said on Twitter that you don’t need to add alt text to all your images. Specifically, adding alt text to small images used for positioning stuff on your pages or placeholder images are not necessary…

So Gary Illyes from Google was at this event, which I was not at :), and he said at the event that the mobile first index might not launch in 2017.

Was Ashley Madison’s web site penalized by Google months ago? Maybe. Marie Haynes posted in the Google Webmasters Help forum examples showing