Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Believe it or not, we actually covered the topic of capital letters in URLs and how Google treats them before. But the question was asked again and John Mueller of Google answered it in a fun way…

Google’s Gary Illyes is still on the DYK tweet theme but this last one is a good one to highlight. Gary recommended that you try to reach the content on your web pages out loud. If it doesn’t read nicely and sounds strange…

A WebmasterWorld thread has SEOs and webmasters upset about a recent drop in traffic from Google Image search. It is the same type of complaints when Google redesigned image search in 2013…

Google’s John Mueller said in the recent webmaster hangout at the 11:55 mark that those who implement the method of disabling the browser back button will not benefit or be hurt in the Google search results. In short…

Google has made a data update to the Google Search Console report specifically for mobile apps…

Over the past week or so, Gary Illyes from Google has been sharing some tips and what he is calling DYK, did you know, tweets about Google, SEO and webmaster topics…

Google’s John Mueller in a video hangout last Friday at the 1:04 mark into the video addressed the common question of why does a page or URL show up in Google’s index for a couple days or so and then drop out…

Last November we reported Google was testing a dynamic loading people also ask feature. Well…

Several months ago, Gary Illyes from Google said Google still uses PageRank and this morning, for some reason, Gary felt the need to state that message again on Twitter…

A few months ago, Google launched AMP based hotel listings via carousel in the mobile search results. Now…

Google announced on the Google Analytics blog that Google Data Studio, Google’s free toolset to build custom reports, now has a connector with Google Search Console.

Google added a new “Data Studio connector for Search Console…

Yesterday, I posted fake news around the potential of Google testing the mobile-first index in the wild. Well, I did say maybe and this is what people were asking. But it seems to be wrong and rather a bug with Google showing desktop URLs in the mobil…

This is probably an obvious and logical statement but Gary Illyes of Google felt the need to post it on Twitter this morning…

Google has many flavors of crawlers from web search to AdWords to AdSense and app crawlers and more. But which are used for URL discovery to be used in web search…

As many of your know, the Google link report in Google Search Console, the links to your site report, shows all (most) of the links to your site. It includes followed, unfollowed and discredited links, etc…

No one likes the process of moving; be it moving your home or your web site to a new location. They may like the end result, the…

Russ Jones from Moz wrote a detailed piece named Google Search Console Reliability: Webmaster Tools on Trial. In short, he said SEOs and webmasters should “remain skeptical of this data…

It was not a slow month when it comes to Google webmaster topics. We saw an unconfirmed Google algorithm update that hit spammers for the most part. We saw Google confirm a Japanese algorithm update but we had a couple smaller updates as well…
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Google has quietly added a “preview” button to the Google Structured Data Testing Tool for some types of structured data – not all. For example, if you bring up the results for a video post here, such as this, Google will show two types, a NewsArticle…

Google’s John Mueller and Gary Illyes, spokespeople for Google, have expressed their extreme dislike and “hate” towards websites that use “read more” buttons to expand the content to show more. John said “why would a site want to hide their content……