Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

So we just covered that meta noindex doesn’t save crawl budget with Google and that question and answer was fairly obvious to most of you. But how about the canonical tag, does it save crawl budget…

The other day, I covered at Search Engine Land a Wired article named Google’s hand-fed AI now gives answers…

It has been a few years since we covered Google updating their site move recommendations document but they have. They basically now give different advice when moving a site based on if the site is a big/large site or small site…

Google has added the ability to submit a page to Google’s index directly from the new version of their mobile-friendly testing tool, which is at search.google.com/search-console/mobile-friendly…

Google has dropped the “featured phone” filter in the URL error report section within Google Search Console. You can access the URL error reports under Current Status > Crawl Errors > Site Errors > URL Errors when you login to the Google Search Console…

Yay, I just checked and the Google Search Console “update” line indicator found in many of the reports within Google Search Console can now be clicked on. In the past, you had to view the page source…

Google is now showing videos in the knowledge graph panel on mobile. Here is a picture from Sergey Alakov, who spots so many Google features…

After months at hinting at removing the content keywords report from the Google Search Console, Google has officially done it.

As we said in May, one of the reasons Google removed it was due to user confusion…

Google’s John Mueller actually gave a legit number, which he normally doesn’t do, around site speed. He said on Twitter that he’d recommend you keep your HTTP load speed less than 2 – 3 seconds. In fact…

It looks like Google is or has worked on tweaking the top stories algorithm to filter out fake news sites, or rather, promote higher quality news sites from showing in that box…

Google has changed the Search Console feature from “submit to index” to “request indexing” within the Fetch as Google feature. This is actually a week or so old but more and more SEOs and webmasters are noticing it…

Google’s Gary Illyes said this morning that he is “hunting” for spammy EMDs, exact match domains…

As you all know, on January 10, 2017, Google is releasing their intrusive interstitial mobile penalty – where if your site loads an interstitial that is super annoying and gets in the way of using your mobile site…

The folks who track the structured data results spotted a new AMP carousel in mobile for hotel listings. Brad Brewer posted in a Google+ thread that Google is now showing AMP carousels for hotel listings…

Google’s John Mueller posted on Twitter asking folks to post topic ideas for the webmaster hangouts he does this December. He said there was some interest in him making his hangouts more topical…

In late August, Google announced limited support for app search for person content…

Many of your probably read the Search Risk – How Google Almost Killed ProtonMail story from a month ago – it has been something I’ve been tracking since August. In August…

As you know, Google announced the slow roll out of their mobile-first index and I covered it in detail over here and then several questions have come up since.

Google announced last night that they now support rich cards for local restaurants and online courses and they also mentioned some of the news we covered around the new structured data docs and using AMP for other markup…

Google is tweaking the structured data stuff like mad, just see how many articles I’ve written about it in the past week or so. The next thing they changes was to require the Image and priceRange…