Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

While we wait for Google to educate us more on how crawl budget works at Google, more and more questions and answers are popping up around the topic.

Aaron Bradley posted on Google+ that the product schema page has added that it can be used not just in the web results but also in Google image search results.

I checked the old and new page and he is indeed right…

Google hosted a special hangout with John Mueller and a colleague from the Dublin office who works on structured data and rich snippets. During the hangout, at the 43:50 minute mark…

Google’s John Mueller said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that you should only include the URLs you want Google to index in your sitemap file, not the other variations. This is probably obvious to many of you, but nowadays I what I think is obvious,…

Google’s Gary Illyes replied on Twitter to an SEO saying there is no Google Sandbox. The Google Sandbox concept dates back to 2004…

Google’s John Mueller said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that any of those third-party Google penalty checker tools are not valid. In fact…

Back in May of this year, Google Search Console added a feature to combine properties into sets so that you can see a snapshot of your Search Analytics reports for all your canonical versions of your sites…

Gary Illyes from Google was asked on Twitter how SEOs and webmasters should measure their page speed. The question was “when ranking pages on speed does google base it on factors such as those in page speed insights or pure response speed…

Google’s John Mueller had an early hangout this morning on the topic of internationalization and Google search. I find the topic to be fascinating…

Back in 2014, Google’s in the news box started showing non-Google News sites. But over time, I thought the In The News box was renamed to Top Stories, but I was wrong.

According to a post on Twitter by RankRanger, the In The News box showed in add…

A couple weeks ago, Google asked about topics for their upcoming Google hangouts. Google’s John Mueller has now published the schedule of those hangouts…

Google’s John Mueller in a hangout from earlier this week said that one of the myths he hears a lot is around crawling…

Update: This is not about webmasters disabling AMP but rather searchers disabling viewing AMP. Sorry for the confusion – this is all about how searchers see AMP stories and giving them an alternative from AMP to view the canonical version…

Google has added a new schema markup type for books in their developer center. Aaron Bradley posted about it on Google+ explaining that this was just added on December 3, 2016.

It is currently a closed beta…

Back in early 2014, we published a poll showing only 10% of webmasters think Google doesn’t like to them. But the truth is, that probably gets under the skin of those in the Google webmaster trends analysts team, where their primary responsibility is …

Google’s John Mueller posted on Twitter A PSA that you should make sure your website contact forms work. He wrote “if you have a contact form on your website, not receiving any submissions isn’t a good sign…

Google’s John Mueller replied on Twitter about a story on Medium named Making Charity Donations in Exchange for Backlinks: Good SEO or Risky Strategy…

It was a busy month with lots of nuggets, the biggest news was Google’s beginning of their mobile first index. We also saw an unconfirmed Google…

An interesting question came up during the Google webmaster hangout on YouTube Live this past Friday…

This is a pretty obvious SEO question for most of you – but hey – Google’s John Mueller confirmed that using the meta noindex tag on your site will not help you save your crawl budget.

Why…