Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

We’ve covered the topic of having links based on anchor text versus images for many years but I don’t know if we covered Google on them. John Mueller said on Twitter this morning that obviously an image link versus a text link are “pretty different……

You are not alone, the Google Search Console is now down – there is a 404 not found error when you try to access it at google.com/webmasters/tools/.

I did give it about 10 minutes before reporting about the issue, hoping it would come back within minu…

When I went offline (which is hard to do) I got notified (which I didn’t see until I came back) that some webmasters were not being notified of manual actions they received in the Google Search Console…

There seems to be a number of webmasters complaining that the Google Search Console’s hreflang international reporting tool is showing errors and a drop in “known tags” in the report. Webmasters who have implemented them correctly are seeing ‘no retur…

John Mueller of Google made an important distinction on Twitter last week saying that the AMP filter you get in the Google Search Console Search Analytics report only shows you data based on the Top Stories section…

Google’s John Mueller said in the webmaster hangout from Friday at the 21:52 mark that Google tends to launch many new changes to the search engine, including algorithm updates and tweaks…

Google’s John Mueller said in the webmaster hangout this morning at the 2:40 mark that Google has a “bunch” of algorithms that try to recognize and detect the original source of the content and thus boost that content accordingly…

Another point Google’s John Mueller made in the hangout from earlier this week at the 42:47 mark was that Google does not have a “website authority score.” He said “we don’t have anything like a website authority score…

Google’s John Mueller spoke about search ranking algorithms that are applied across the site. He mentioned it at the 42:47 mark into the hangout from Tuesday…

Google’s John Mueller said in the Google hangout this week that there is no need to disavow sitewide or blogroll links. He said this at the 2:12 mark of the hangout that if the links are natural and organic…

I need to post about Penguin since it has been almost two days since I didn’t write about it.

This is a short one, just so you all are clear. There is no Penguin boost…

At the 12:10 mark in the Google hangout from yesterday, John Mueller said he met with the team yesterday about the Intrusive Interstitials Mobile Penalty that is coming in a few months and he said that right now…

The other day, I interviewed Gary Illyes of Google and he said that the only factor Google looks at for the HTTPS ranking boost is if the URL is listed with HTTPS or not.

This is not new news…

John Mueller of Google said on Twitter that you do not need to submit a separate XML sitemap file for your AMP pages. He said the rel=amphtml link is enough for Google to pick up on the AMP version…

We still don’t know if HTTP2 support has been officially here for GoogleBot but we think GoogleBot works fine with it now. We also know that Google said there is no direct HTTP2 ranking benefit.

But is there an advantage…

The majority of SEOs and webmasters want Google to confirm more algorithmic updates. At least those are the results from my skewed polls I run here.

I asked back about a month ago, if Google should confirm more of those unconfirmed updates…

I know, I’ve been covering Penguin like a crazy clown but we only really covered how some are seeing Penguin recoveries. When there are ups in rankings…

As you know, we are expecting some negativity out of Penguin 4.0 because some links no longer count. So if a site loses links, or they no longer count, the rankings of the page can decline.
So I asked SEOs…

Google launched a new AMP testing tool yesterday within the Google Search Console. You can access it at https://search.google.com/search-console/amp.

You basically plug in the AMP URL into the tool and let it run…

Yesterday I reported at Search Engine Land based on Gary Illyes of Google’s keynote at PubCon yesterday that Google is set to launch their mobile only index within a timeframe of “months…