Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Many keep asking, has the Google mobile interstitial penalty fully rolled out yet…

Gary Illyes from Google posted on Twitter asking webmasters and SEOs “what (technical) topic would you be interested in reading on the Official Google Webmaster Blog…

Several weeks ago, Google told us crawl budget is not what we think it is and promised to write a blog post explaining what Google defines as crawl budget. Well, Gary Illyes posted on the Google blog What Crawl Budget Means for Googlebot…

We’ve covered the topic of negative SEO to exhaustion but hey, Google’s John Mueller had a nice line about it this morning.

Someone asked him what they should do now that their competitor started a negative SEO attack against them…

Brad Brewer posted on Twitter that the Google Structured Data Testing Tool now supports MTE, multi-typed entities.

This can be used for the hotel schema markup said Brad. Here is a screen shot of the tool showing the support for the MTE…

The Google quality raters are contractors who work to test and judge experiments in the Google search results. They do not influence the rankings but rather give Google’s engineers more data points to judge how well the algorithms are working…
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The Google mobile interstitial penalty began rolling out this week. It seems to still be rolling out as we speak but some sites got hit pretty hard.

Glenn Gabe posted some examples of pages loosing ten or more spots in their mobile rankings because …

Yesterday, we covered that Google’s John Mueller said not to use the link operator. This comes a year or so after Google said the link operator is not dead yet. Well…

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…