Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Google has many flavors of crawlers from web search to AdWords to AdSense and app crawlers and more. But which are used for URL discovery to be used in web search…

As many of your know, the Google link report in Google Search Console, the links to your site report, shows all (most) of the links to your site. It includes followed, unfollowed and discredited links, etc…

No one likes the process of moving; be it moving your home or your web site to a new location. They may like the end result, the…

Russ Jones from Moz wrote a detailed piece named Google Search Console Reliability: Webmaster Tools on Trial. In short, he said SEOs and webmasters should “remain skeptical of this data…

It was not a slow month when it comes to Google webmaster topics. We saw an unconfirmed Google algorithm update that hit spammers for the most part. We saw Google confirm a Japanese algorithm update but we had a couple smaller updates as well…
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Google has quietly added a “preview” button to the Google Structured Data Testing Tool for some types of structured data – not all. For example, if you bring up the results for a video post here, such as this, Google will show two types, a NewsArticle…

Google’s John Mueller and Gary Illyes, spokespeople for Google, have expressed their extreme dislike and “hate” towards websites that use “read more” buttons to expand the content to show more. John said “why would a site want to hide their content……

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…