Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Gary Illyes from Google, a webmaster trends analysts whose job is to help webmasters with communication, said on Twitter that typically, but not always, Google employees only help or step into the forums when they need to.

@PabloMktOnline yeah…
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When a site gets hacked it can cause lots of problems for the site owner. Of course, the ranking issues and penalties that may be associated with the site. But once your rankings come back…

Google recently began showing list carousels even for top lists and such…

As you may remember, Wix is running an SEO her contest where a new site that ranks for the term [seo hero] can win $50,000.

Recently, Wix put together a fun video where an SEO villain named Apocolinks has broken all the links in the world…
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That issue where Google was labeling pages as not mobile friendly when they are is still maybe an issue…

We know Google humans review web spam reports and machines don’t do that…

Aaron Bradly, one of the hawks of schema and markup, noticed Google showing early access to schema support for job listings, plus many others on it’s way. The page is at the pilot features section. Currently, I see links to carousels, data feeds…
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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…