Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

A site named Just Miniatures in the UK seemed to have been hit by the Google mobile interstitial penalty, when in fact, it probably should not have been. This is in addition to many sites that should have been hit…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that the “hierarchy in URL elements isn’t that important for Google search.” This was in response to a question around how deep a URL is within your folder structure…

On the heels of the link operator being killed off by Google, some SEOs are worried that Google will drop the site operator/command. The site operator lets you quickly do a site only search…

Gary Illyes from Google wants to hear feedback on success, failure or other issues during your HTTPS migration and how Google handled picking up and reindexing those HTTPS URLs and any traffic changes…

Google has announced they finally released the mobile-friendly test API, something webmasters have been asking for since the test has came out in November 2014.

Google said “the Mobile-Friendly Test API lets you test URLs using automated tools…
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The folks at RankRanger reports that Google News on mobile is now showing close AMP in the US results up to about 70% of the time.

They said that between January 26th and January 29th is when they saw the spike…

If you login to your Google Search Console account and view many of the reports in there…

Google’s John Mueller addressed a question we covered a couple times in the past. How does Google order the results they show for a site command. So you do a site:www.mydomain.com in Google and it normally returns your home page and then all the othe…

John Mueller addressed two different questions around AMP in the past 24 hours or so. The first, he said AMP is not a ranking factor…

Gary Illyes from Google posted on Twitter that Google is now done with numbered Penguin releases. He said “we’re not planning more numbered releases for penguin…

Back in 2014, Google came out with a feature in Google Search Console named international targeting a way to monitor your href lang settings or set your web site’s desired country…

As you know, the Google mobile interstitial penalty began to roll out on schedule on January 10, 2017. Some, but very few sites, got hit hard pretty quickly but truth is…

Many keep asking, has the Google mobile interstitial penalty fully rolled out yet…

Gary Illyes from Google posted on Twitter asking webmasters and SEOs “what (technical) topic would you be interested in reading on the Official Google Webmaster Blog…

Several weeks ago, Google told us crawl budget is not what we think it is and promised to write a blog post explaining what Google defines as crawl budget. Well, Gary Illyes posted on the Google blog What Crawl Budget Means for Googlebot…

We’ve covered the topic of negative SEO to exhaustion but hey, Google’s John Mueller had a nice line about it this morning.

Someone asked him what they should do now that their competitor started a negative SEO attack against them…

Brad Brewer posted on Twitter that the Google Structured Data Testing Tool now supports MTE, multi-typed entities.

This can be used for the hotel schema markup said Brad. Here is a screen shot of the tool showing the support for the MTE…

The Google quality raters are contractors who work to test and judge experiments in the Google search results. They do not influence the rankings but rather give Google’s engineers more data points to judge how well the algorithms are working…
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The Google mobile interstitial penalty began rolling out this week. It seems to still be rolling out as we speak but some sites got hit pretty hard.

Glenn Gabe posted some examples of pages loosing ten or more spots in their mobile rankings because …

Yesterday, we covered that Google’s John Mueller said not to use the link operator. This comes a year or so after Google said the link operator is not dead yet. Well…