Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Google is now sending mass messages via the Google Search Console about making sure your login box is served over HTTPS. Many sites have logins on HTTP, non secure pages…

Some people give charity, some people go to a soup kitchen, some people spend more time with family as a Christmas day tradition. Well…

The topic of Google throttling traffic to a web site has been around since 2008 or earlier…

If you follow Google like I do, you’d notice that it is like a ghost town there. Almost everyone is off, on vacation, spending time with family and friends. If you send an email to a Googler, it is almost guaranteed you’d get a vacation response……

I honestly never heard of this but Google’s John Mueller told someone that they do not need to worry that Google will consider new URLs that are close to the same URL name as an old URL to transfer signals from the old URL to the new URL…

In May 2016, Gary Illyes from Google said he is angry with sites that don’t link out – he called it stupid. But John Mueller later explained that there is no penalty…

It seems Google is showing more featured snippets for more queries than they have even done before. Both RankRanger and Mozcast show a significant uptick in the percentage of queries that Google is showing these featured snippets…

Are you considering going AMP? Are you confused about PWAs and if you should consider that route…

Google launched a small update for the AMP reports in the Google Search Console yesterday where they now differentiate between critical and non-critical issues with your AMP pages. Critical issues would “prevent your page from being served with AMP-re…

I cannot tell you how many times people emailed me or pinged me on social when they saw the Google Search Console reports say “update” in them. They thought Google confirmed some sort of algorithmic update and the update line in the reports was proof….

Since 2013 we’ve been hearing Google may extend the search analytics query data from 90 days of data to a full year…

As you all know, on January 10, 2017 the Google mobile intrusive interstitial penalty is coming and as we explained…

Google’s John Mueller spelled it out in a single post on Twitter that there is no one single recipe for success for when it comes to ranking in Google search…

Nathan Johns, a relatively quiet search quality analysts in the Google Search department posted on Twitter that sites writing about fake news should “think twice” about placing taboola or outbrain links on your site…

The data anomalies page where Google documents the changes to Google Search Console says that last week, due to infrastructure updates with the tool, both the AMP and Rich Cards reports may have different data in the reports…

November 2015, Google said they would let us know if it is safe to go HTTP/2 with your web servers by the end of 2015. That never really came but they did discuss how there is no HTTP/2 SEO advantage later on this year…

Gary Illyes from Google said on Twitter that Google ranks Wikipedia just like it ranks any other web site on the internet. In short…

Google’s review markup guidelines now prohibit including profanity and/or vulgar language in your reviews…

John Mueller of Google said this morning in a hangout on YouTube at the 5:40 mark into the video that moving your header tags, i.e. <h1> and/or <h2&gt…

I’ve been covering Google AMP like crazy here because Google keeps escalating the importance of it. But I also covered at least twice how it appears the click through rate on AMP results are drastically lower than normal results…