Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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…

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…