Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

For almost a year (maybe more), Moz and Google have not agreed on how Google handles 302 redirects. Well, after much back and forth, this week, Moz updated their SEO help docs to include the debate around 302…

Back in 2011, Duane Forrestor, when he was at Bing was interviewed about Bing Sitemaps and said:

Your Sitemaps need to be clean. We have a 1% allowance for dirt in a Sitemap. Examples of dirt are if we click on a URL and we see a redirect…

For over a year now, probably longer, the link operator, i.e. link:domain.com in Google, would not really provide the best results. Google’s Gary Illyes told us almost a year ago that the command is not gone but truth is…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that most of the 404 error codes that Google picks up on are not the webmasters fault. He said many people link weirdly or have broken code when they link…

Gary Illyes from Google said that he does enjoy and like answering SEO questions but he doesn’t like when it leads into an SEO argument.

Here is the tweet:

@dawnieando I like SEO questions…

Google launched Penguin 4.0 in late September, but it took a while to roll out and see recoveries.

Here is a cool screen shot from Aleyda Solis of a client recovery for her:

Oh Penguin you <3 pic.twitter…

Just like last year and this past Christmas and the years before – Google’s John Mueller spent some of his New Years holiday helping webmasters.

He did it both on New Years eve and New Years day…

Over the years, Wix has had a reputation of not doing too well with SEO and search rankings. Wix is a popular web site publishing platform and to have a bad reputation around SEO and search…

A Google Webmaster Help thread has one webmaster that needs help controlling how GoogleBot crawls his sites. He said the controls in Google Search Console are not doing it.

John Mueller said that he can use the link on the bottom of this form in order…

In Google’s last hangout of the year, I asked John Mueller of Google what advice does he want to give SEOs for 2017 – assuming those SEOs have done everything right in 2016.

Have you noticed a change in your link count within the Google Search Console Links To Your Site report…

Remember the hangout that I covered yesterday where Google’s John Mueller said that really slow sites may not be labeled as mobile friendly…

In April, Google began showing a warning label in the search results to the owner of the web site if their pages were not mobile friendly…

Google’s John Mueller said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that it makes most sense to keep the default setting found within your content management system for your robots.txt access control…

In the past, Google has taken extreme action by banning all sites on an specific host and even on a specific sub domain. Back in the day…

In the hangout from yesterday with Google’s John Mueller he said something I never knew before, that pages that load really slowly may be considered NOT mobile friendly…

With all the Google shuffles recently in December, as I covered in the Google updates category, some SEOs and webmasters believe that Google has pushed out their mobile first index fully…

It seems counterintuitive to me to use a site removal feature in the Google Search Console when migrating a site from domain A to domain B. But one SEO asked if it would help in a Google Webmaster Help thread. The answer is obviously no…

Yesterday I covered a thread at WebmasterWorld asking if Does Google Limit Traffic To Your Web Site…

As you all know, I do try to join as many Google webmaster hangouts as possible live. But I always make an effort to listen to them after the fact as well…