Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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…

John Mueller of Google said on Twitter that the date of the cache displayed in Google is not indicative of the crawl rate or how recently your page was crawled…

Google has completely revamped the documentation for article structured data in their developer section. It is really a complete rewrite…

The Google Search Console team added a new feature to the Search Analytics report, under the Search Appearance tab to filter your AMP results by rich results versus normal results. Previously, that filter only showed the rich results data, i.e. the to…

Aaron Bradley posted on Google+ a new beta feature around structured markup Google is now testing in the search results. In short…

Another one spotted by Aaron Bradley and posted on Google+ was that Google updated the guidelines around recipes markup to say you should use AMP HTML…

Google’s Maile Ohye and then confirmed by Gary Illyes of Google said that if you have a desktop site but no mobile version, but you do have AMP versions – in the mobile-first index world, Google will include the desktop version in their mobile-first in…

Just a heads up, pretty obvious one, do not email Matt Cutts, the man who pretty much set up search quality at Google, asking to buy links or do sponsored content for links. It is a bad idea…

A month ago, I interview Gary Illyes at Marketing Land and covered this bit at Search Engine Land but it got lost. In short…

When implementing schema and structured markup, there are multiple formats you can use, such as microdata, RDFa, or JSON-LD…

In September 2013, Google announced Hummingbird the new revised engine that powers Google’s search algorithm. It made search faster and more efficient – but it isn’t a spam algorithm. Spam algorithms may plug into the overall algorithm…