Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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…

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…