Some May See A Drop In Google Link Counts In Search Console
Have you noticed a change in your link count within the Google Search Console Links To Your Site report…
The Google Mobile First Index Won’t Measure Page Speed
Remember the hangout that I covered yesterday where Google’s John Mueller said that really slow sites may not be labeled as mobile friendly…
Google Misinforming Webmasters That Their Page Is Not Mobile Friendly
In April, Google began showing a warning label in the search results to the owner of the web site if their pages were not mobile friendly…
Google: Keep The Default CMS Robots.txt Setting
Google’s John Mueller said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that it makes most sense to keep the default setting found within your content management system for your robots.txt access control…
Google: CDNs Are Safe & Shouldn’t Hurt Your Rankings
In the past, Google has taken extreme action by banning all sites on an specific host and even on a specific sub domain. Back in the day…
Google: Slow Pages Might Be Labeled As Not Mobile Friendly
In the hangout from yesterday with Google’s John Mueller he said something I never knew before, that pages that load really slowly may be considered NOT mobile friendly…
Google: Mobile First Index Is Not Yet Live
With all the Google shuffles recently in December, as I covered in the Google updates category, some SEOs and webmasters believe that Google has pushed out their mobile first index fully…
Google: Site Removal Tool Won’t Speed Up Site Migrations
It seems counterintuitive to me to use a site removal feature in the Google Search Console when migrating a site from domain A to domain B. But one SEO asked if it would help in a Google Webmaster Help thread. The answer is obviously no…
Google: We Have No Web Site Page Quota & Do Not Throttle Traffic
Yesterday I covered a thread at WebmasterWorld asking if Does Google Limit Traffic To Your Web Site…
How To Join The Last Google Webmaster Hangout Of The Year
As you all know, I do try to join as many Google webmaster hangouts as possible live. But I always make an effort to listen to them after the fact as well…
Google Search Console Notifications: Nonsecure Collection Of Passwords In Chrome
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…
John Mueller Of Google Helping Webmasters On Christmas Day Again
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 Google Throttle: Does Google Limit Traffic To Your Web Site?
The topic of Google throttling traffic to a web site has been around since 2008 or earlier…
Is It Safer To Spam Google Search During The Holidays & New Years?
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……
Google: Similar New URLs Won’t Pick Up Old URLs Signals
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…
Google Reiterates There Is No Penalty For Not Linking Out
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…
Google Featured Snippets Now Displayed On More Queries
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…
Video: Google’s Webmaster Hangout On AMPs & PWAs
Are you considering going AMP? Are you confused about PWAs and if you should consider that route…
Google Search Console AMP Reports Differentiate Between Critical & Non-Critical Issues
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…
Google Changes Search Console Report “Update” Line To “Note”
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….