Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Since 2013 we’ve been hearing Google may extend the search analytics query data from 90 days of data to a full year…

As you all know, on January 10, 2017 the Google mobile intrusive interstitial penalty is coming and as we explained…

Google’s John Mueller spelled it out in a single post on Twitter that there is no one single recipe for success for when it comes to ranking in Google search…

Nathan Johns, a relatively quiet search quality analysts in the Google Search department posted on Twitter that sites writing about fake news should “think twice” about placing taboola or outbrain links on your site…

The data anomalies page where Google documents the changes to Google Search Console says that last week, due to infrastructure updates with the tool, both the AMP and Rich Cards reports may have different data in the reports…

November 2015, Google said they would let us know if it is safe to go HTTP/2 with your web servers by the end of 2015. That never really came but they did discuss how there is no HTTP/2 SEO advantage later on this year…

Gary Illyes from Google said on Twitter that Google ranks Wikipedia just like it ranks any other web site on the internet. In short…

Google’s review markup guidelines now prohibit including profanity and/or vulgar language in your reviews…

John Mueller of Google said this morning in a hangout on YouTube at the 5:40 mark into the video that moving your header tags, i.e. <h1> and/or <h2&gt…

I’ve been covering Google AMP like crazy here because Google keeps escalating the importance of it. But I also covered at least twice how it appears the click through rate on AMP results are drastically lower than normal results…

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…