Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

One of the more common requests I see from webmasters and SEOs in regards to the Google Search Console link report is for Google to label which links are disavowed or nofollowed and which are passing all types of link juice…

An SEO named Brock Ellison asked Google’s John Mueller and Gary Illyes (he also asked others) the same question and he got different answers from John and Gary…

So we’ve covered Google saying you can rank without links which is why Google’s Gary Illyes was asked about it again on Twitter. Gary’s response was refreshing, saying that “if you care about that page at all, you should probably link it from the site…

Gary Illyes from Google posted on Twitter one of those DYK saying that there is opportunity for webmasters and SEOs to create content in non-English languages because for many non-English languages, there isn’t “enough content even for head queries…
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Google’s John Mueller was asked about what makes quality content, um, quality. In which, John responded that a good rule of thumb is content that your users will want to come back to even without a search engine…

Some of the questions SEOs send to Google seem to always amaze me. Basically people asking Google how can they safely spam Google. The last question was about how to do “bulk submission of quality articles” in a safe way. It was addressed to Google’s…

Google has always downplayed the importance of priority and chance frequency in the XML sitemap files. They have told webmasters to not worry about it and even said they ignore other fields like the lastmod date.

That being said…

Paul Haahr, a lead search ranking engineer at Google, said on Twitter that there haven’t been many changes to Google’s algorithms around duplicate detection and clustering in the search results. He said “we make improvements to our code over time…
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Following up on questions around Google’s newish mobile intrusive interstitials penalty. Yesterday we said that store locators that take up the whole screen can be an issue…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter yesterday that some store locator implementations on mobile may be be considered an intrusive mobile interstitial and thus be at risk for the mobile interstitial Google penalty – if there is any risk…

Google has said time and time again that the search team, the organic side, does not talk to the paid side, the AdWords teams. There is a pretty big divide, intentionally, between paid and organic. This is also true with the AdSense team…

Back, just about six years ago, Google told us Facebook likes don’t influence Google rankings and that statement remains true in 2017, just like it did in 2011. Gary Illyes from Google said the same thing yesterday on Twitter…

May 2016, Google first introduced the new rich cards and yesterday, Google quietly updated the original announcement saying Rich Cards are now available globally…

So last year, Google gave us a way to combine data into sets within Google Search Console. So if you have verified a www, non-www, https, non-https, apps, etc – you can combine them all into a single set and get aggregate data for all of them in one Go…

I spotted a thread at the Google Webmaster Help forums that made me laugh, and since you guys are mostly SEOs…

Google’s John Mueller posted a reply on Twitter saying that if there are no links to a specific URL, then Google won’t find the URL. Of course, the exception here is the fetch and submit feature and Sitemap feature…

With Google Home, Google Assistant and more people using voice search on Google, webmasters want to know what voice search queries Google is using to show their site, potentially as a featured snippet or more…

Google has quietly added new rich results markup for podcasts in the developer center. Aaron Bradley seemed to have first spotted this and posted it on Google+ saying that “a new data type has appeared in the Google reference library of structured dat…

Google has lost some of your data in the Google Search Analytics report within Google Search Console. Specifically around image search clicks and impressions…

Gary Illyes from Google said on Friday, right after officially confirming the Fred update that Google has never denied an update that “actually happened.” At least, he said that Google has never done that, on purpose…