Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

The SEO community seems pretty upset that if you go into your Google Search Analytics report within the Google Search Console, you will be missing a day, specifically March 9, 2017…

Wouldn’t it be nice if Google told you which pages on your site are low quality and then you had an action list of pages that need more love and attention from you…

Sometimes I wonder where some of these rumors come from. Someone actually asked Google’s John Mueller on Twitter if you can get a Google linking penalty for linking your web site to Wikipedia. I am not joking…

Gary Illyes from Google posted on Twitter one of his did you know pieces saying did you know that “quality comments can be a signal of a healthy website?” Here is the tweet:

DYK quality comments can be a signal of a healthy website…

Almost a year ago today, Google’s John Mueller told SEOs again that keywords in the URL is a small ranking factor in Google’s search ranking algorithm. This is not new…

As many of you know, I want Google to do a no date penalty but I doubt that will happen. Although, Google is asking if they should do a penalty for sites that have auto-play video advertisements…

Gary Illyes said back in the day that it makes him angry when publishers don’t link out to their sources. We also know that there is no penalty for not linking out. But now…

The topic of does Google’s ranking signals and algorithms different based on the query or searcher has been around for a while. I believe most algorithms are not query dependent but there are some signals that are specific to the type of query and the…

Many SEOs are obsessed with pagespeed but as you know, mobile rankings don’t even look at mobile page speed these days and they won’t when the mobile first index comes out, at least not to start…

So we have the fetch and render tool in Google Search Console but it seems like Google is building a new tool to show webmasters how Google is rendering a page on their crawl…

When Google first introduced AMP, accelerated mobile pages, they said it might be a ranking signal but they ended up not using AMP as a ranking signal and have continued to not use it…

Britney Muller from Moz, no relation to John Mueller from Google, posted on Twitter several weeks ago that Moz lost a featured snippet in Google because the page had a typo, a spelling mistake. She said when she fixed the typo…

About six-weeks ago, Google’s John Mueller announced in the Google Webmaster Help forums that they have moved support for Google Firebase app indexing…

Jeff Atwood, co-founder of Stack Overflow, posted on Twitter the other day that he once checked in a robots.txt that deindexed all Stack Overflow content from Google. In which, Matt Cutts, the ex-Googler, responded that “to be fair, a lot of people do…

Google posted on Twitter a survey asking webmasters why they use the site: search operator. If Google didn’t say a month ago that they are keeping the site command I’d be concerned that this was about Google potentially pulling this useful search oper…

Google is sending out a new notifications via the Google Search Console when the AMP viewer search shows the AMP’s hostname in the header from the wrong domain. Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter “if you’re using a CDN…

Yesterday, for some reason, the Google Search Console AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) report under the Search Appearance section, shows a huge spike in both indexed pages and errors. The next day…

Google’s John Mueller posted on Twitter something many of you probably know…

Former Google search quality representative Murat Yatagan asked an SEO question to current Googler John Mueller. The question was a bit deep and posted in a very concise way on Twitter…

We’ve talked a lot about sites that close down once a week or more for religious purposes, specifically closing on Shabbat…