Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

We knew this was coming, Google is transitioning their webmaster hangouts from Google+ Hangouts to YouTube Live Hangouts. I am just happy that…

Google has added a new search based schema markup to the developer documents. This one is a search Rich Card results format specifically for courses. Aaron Bradley spotted this first and posted it on Twitter…

In about one month it will be a full two years since the last official Google Penguin update, aka Penguin 3.0. We think Google is close to launching Penguin 4.0, the real time version, because they are working on an announcement for it…

In May, Google Search Console announced property sets, which lets you combine several properties into one profile and see the aggregate Search Analytics data for all the properties you have combined in one set.

Well…

In a blog post this morning on the Google Webmaster Blog, Google decided to define “What is AMP…

Over the past week or so, some webmasters have been reporting an increase in crawl errors. It is mostly documented in…

On Wednesday Google announced that they are bringing “reviews from the web” to the local knowledge panel section of the search results.

Well…

John Mueller of Google answered a question in the Google Hangout on Google+ saying a site that is getting more and more traffic…

Monday we reported that the Google Search Console’s Search Analytics report bugged out at the worst time, right in time for folks to not be able to see how they were hit by the Google weekend update.

Well, it was a bug and Google is now in the proce…

Google announced early this morning that they are reminding webmasters to not try to use widget links as a link building strategy…

Pete Meyers spotted and posted on Twitter another flavor of the featured snippets…

We must be close if Google is actively working on their announcement for when Penguin 4.0 goes live.

John Mueller of Google said this at the 44:30 mark into yesterday’s hangout on YouTube Live…

One of the more common technical SEO questions I see is why isn’t Google showing rich snippets for my site when I have implemented them correctly. So we know that Google often won’t show rich snippets if the site doesn’t meet a certain (undocumented) …

Google’s John Mueller said a few minutes ago on YouTube Live around 5 minutes into the video that the weekend update rumors are not Penguin related. So he said you can “rule out” Penguin in terms of saying the Penguin algorithm was updated this weeken…

This morning, Google posted a new update to the data anomalies page for the Search Analytics report in the Google Search Console. In short, the search Analytics report has not yet updated since August 31…

Ilya Teker, an SEO Director iProspect, informed me on Twitter that one of the largest television networks in Turkey had their website banned and penalized…

Friday, we reported about a Google update or signs of a pretty interesting Google update. As the weekend progressed…

It is that time of the month, here is our monthly Google webmaster report, where I summarize the most important webmaster/SEO related topics over the past month. If you missed the August report, make sure to scan through that to catch up…

John Mueller responded to a question on Twitter this morning says all paid link spam reports are reviewed manually by humans at Google, i.e. Googlers.

John wrote, “these are reviewed manually” when asked about the paid link report he submitted…
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As you expected, Google was going to drop the mobile friendly label. Well, as of this morning, the mobile friendly label is officially gone.

Here is a screen shot showing the before and after…