Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Google seems to have significantly dropped the number of sitelinks that show up in the search results under the snippets from around 35% of all queries that show sitelinks to about 8.5% of all queries that show sitelinks. That is according to the RankR…

In the past 24 hours, both Google’s John Mueller and Gary Illyes answered questions around top level domains and rankings. One was about a ranking boost and the other was on a ranking demotion…

Google has told us for years that content hidden in tabs, accordions and so forth are not given full weight and may be ignored by their ranking algorithms. But that is to change…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that Google uses the canonical page for the search results snippet in Google – and often that is not the AMP page…

We’ve covered Google saying that they do not use domain registration length as a ranking factor before but it was back in 2009. We even discussed this topic a few times in the past and each time…

As most of you already know, Google announced Friday afternoon that they are going live with their test of their “mobile-first” index…

It is true, a site can lose their rich snippets over quality issues or never get the rich snippets in the first place. But what is not true is that if you do have rich snippets…

As we reported a few weeks ago, Google removed the Sitelinks demotion tool from the Google Search Console.

But did you know that the tool did not work for about 6-months prior to that…

Yesterday, I received numerous reports that the robots.txt tester tool in the Google Search Console was broken. Google indeed confirmed it and said they are working on a fix. Well, Google indeed fixed it…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that requesting Google to crawl your pages doesn’t negatively impact your rankings and if Google crawls your pages more often…

For the past several days, I’ve been watching this thread at WebmasterWorld with a great title named “Still Believe in 200 Rank Factors & Santa Claus…

Here is the monthly Google webmaster report, if you missed last month, you will want to catch up there. In short, this month was more about Penguin 4.0…

The page layout algorithms/penalty that penalizes sites with too many ads distracting users from the main content is supposedly an algorithm that is automated and doesn’t need to be manually run.

We discussed the concept of the real time algorithms wh…

There are some rumors in the industry that Google’s algorithms have a positive bias towards WordPress powered content management systems. The truth is…

A Google Webmaster Help thread has Google’s John Mueller recommending to one webmaster that it might be a good idea to verify your web site within Google Search Console more than just one way…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that it is safe to remove links from you disavow file “if you’ve cleaned up the links & they’ve been reprocessed.”

So first step, make sure the links no longer are there or you are blocking them in some way…

As you know, Google said the mobile index should be out within months. This mobile index will act as Google’s primary index, and Google will crawl the web from a desktop view as a secondary to the mobile view.

But Google is still hard at work at it……

Stemming off my story named Google: We Don’t Have “Overall Domain Authority” In Our Rankings – Alan Bleiweiss said “if an overall authority didn’t exist…

Last week, we quoted Google’s John Mueller as saying Google doesn’t have a website authority score. Well, now, Gary Illyes from Google got into it by saying “we don’t really have overall domain authority…

In January, Moz reported that 25% of the Google search results were HTTPS. Meaning of the top search results Moz tracks, 25% of those were listed as HTTPS in the snippets. Well, now that number is up to 40% according to the Mozcast features tool…
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