Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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…

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…