Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

We’ve been talking a lot about Google crawl budget recently but here is a tweet that Google’s John Mueller retweeted from Twitter Rasmus SÃ’rensen where he said he was able to reduce his load time on his server by 50% which resulted in his crawl budget “exploding…

Looks like NaturalNews.com is back in Google. A site command returns 440,000+ pages including the home page.

As you know, last week…

As you know, emojis are back in the Google search results for emoji relevant queries. But we also know back in May…

Google’s John Mueller said in a video hangout on Friday at the 8:54 mark that Google’s Panda algorithm takes into account site quality, including the site architecture…

Google’s John Mueller said that generally, web directories do not help with SEO or rankings. Google has said in the past that directories aren’t the right way to build links to your site and then early, Google warned not to use directories for link b…

Google has said for years that linking out has no impact on your rankings and SEO. So here is a reminder…

In 2014, Google declared guest blogging for links dead and has penalized guest blog networks time after time since then. So when someone asked Google’s John Mueller on Twitter if using a guest blogging platform was a good idea and safe…

People asking me on Twitter about why NaturalNews.com was deindexed by Google. People are saying it was because of “fake news” but that is not the case.

When Gboard, Google’s iOS keyboard, launched, I was really excited and switched to it. Overall the keyboard is way better than the built in iOS keyboard. But it was missing one big feature, voice typing. So sometimes…

John Mueller from Google said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that if you remove the HTTP version from the Google Search Console, it may remove the other versions as well…

Google’s John Mueller reluctantly explained in a live webmaster video this week on YouTube at the 31:22 mark that he would “watch out” when using contests to get links. He said the links might not be “clean” and if you are doing it to “exchange someth…

Google wants you to stop using URL fragments for your content. Google’s John Mueller said this on Twitter this morning…

A thread at Black Hat World, a public black hat forum, is having a discussion about the value of PBNs, public blog networks…

Gary Illyes from Google, a webmaster trends analysts whose job is to help webmasters with communication, said on Twitter that typically, but not always, Google employees only help or step into the forums when they need to.

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When a site gets hacked it can cause lots of problems for the site owner. Of course, the ranking issues and penalties that may be associated with the site. But once your rankings come back…

Google recently began showing list carousels even for top lists and such…

As you may remember, Wix is running an SEO her contest where a new site that ranks for the term [seo hero] can win $50,000.

Recently, Wix put together a fun video where an SEO villain named Apocolinks has broken all the links in the world…
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That issue where Google was labeling pages as not mobile friendly when they are is still maybe an issue…

We know Google humans review web spam reports and machines don’t do that…

Aaron Bradly, one of the hawks of schema and markup, noticed Google showing early access to schema support for job listings, plus many others on it’s way. The page is at the pilot features section. Currently, I see links to carousels, data feeds…
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