Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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…

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…