Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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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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…