Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Normally, Google isn’t so public about their shaming of those who go against their webmaster guidelines. But last week…

Google’s John Mueller was asked about how Google indexes and ranks images that are in 360° format…

Yesterday, at SMX West during the mobile-first index panel…

Several days ago, rumors started surfacing on Twitter that a former Google representation, a senior one, is now playing for the other team – spamming the search engine. Of course, no names were released but supposedly…

Are you worried that your discussion forums on your domain is bringing down your overall domain’s rankings in Google…

When submitting a sitemap in Google search Console, it seems you need to stick with all HTTP or HTTPS URLs and not mix them. I haven’t tested this myself…

Gary Illyes from Google posted a DYK, did you know, recently on Twitter that said that generally GoogleBot “doesn’t make use of cookies, but it can if it detects it cannot get to the content without them…

We all know how bad some feature snippets in Google’s search results can look but even if you point it out to one of Google’s lead search engineers…

Some think that being included in Google News, which is a human, manual inclusion process, is the same as being included in the “top stories” section in web search. It is not…

For years and years, Google has been trying to communicate that 404s, page not found results, are a normal part of the web. Pages don’t always live forever. 404s are not a bad thing, they are a normal thing…

6 weeks ago we covered that the site command is sticking around despite other Google operators going away slowly. But then, a week or so ago…

The other day, Bill Hartzer posted that he saw Google showing inaccurate and false dates on his articles within the Google search results. Now I see a WebmasterWorld thread started by the administrator there, with a similar complaint…

Yesterday we covered the new quality raters guidelines and how it targets and flags offensive, inaccurate and hate content in the search results. Tons of people took it to mean that Google is censoring the internet. That is not really the case, inste…

In the Google webmaster hangout last week, an SEO who is going on a job interview at a really huge web site, a news publisher he said…

The Google page layout algorithm/penalty which originally launched in 2012 and has been updated a few times since is still an important algorithm says Google’s Gary Illyes.

Gary was asked about it on Twitter and said, “yes…

We’ve seen Googlers say time and time again that you can rank without links because Google will look at the content but most SEOs know that without links, you cannot rank for anything somewhat competitive…

Yesterday, Google released a new quality raters guidelines PDF document that was specifically updated to tell the quality raters how to spot and flag offensive, upsetting, inaccurate and hateful web pages in the search results…

Gary Illyes and John Mueller from Google both mock a tweet about PBNs, private blog networks. The tweet contains a screen shot of a private Facebook message saying that he was able to block the PBNs by using robots.txt and “it worked…

So yesterday, in an effort to try to help a lot of people, I posted my theory on what type of sites/content the Google Fred update targets. I said low value content aimed at revenue generation over helping their users. I unintentionally upset a lot of…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that when a Google manual action is revoked via Google Search Console…