Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Late yesterday, Google announced “in app” search for App Indexing on Android. It allows developers to integrate their apps to let Google index locally personal content within the app, to be surfaced on search on Android devices…

Just a couple weeks ago we reported that Google will soon support Schema version 3.1 with their structured data testing tool. Well, it seems as of yesterday…

Aaron Bradley spotted and posted on Google+ that Google has opened up a pilot for the search live coverage carousel…

John Mueller of Google was asked if requiring API users to give the API source a followed link is okay or not. John Mueller said that it is essentially the same thing as a paid link.

He said this on Twitter:

@jsilton That’s essentially a paid link…

Google announced their mobile interstitial penalty and a lot of discussion has been brewing about that penalty.

One person asked Google’s John Mueller on Twitter if the AdSense Page Level Ads will be hit by this penalty…

The big news from last week was the new Google penalty coming January 10…

It has been some time since we mentioned anything related to Google Panda and John Mueller answered two questions on the topic in the last Google Hangout on Google+ from this past Friday morning.

Question One: It took 10 months for Google to launch th…

As you know, Google announced a new penalty coming at the beginning of the 2017 year for downgrading intrusive mobile interstitials. Yesterday we asked…

Earlier this week, we reported that the Google index status report was broken and not updating for many in the Google Search Console set of tools. Supposedly it was an issue for weeks before I even reported it…

Google announced they will be penalizing sites that have intrusive interstitials on mobile. But Google said there are types of interstitials that do not trigger the penalty and types that do…

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been hearing rumblings across the community about the Google search results not working as expected. Specifically how the titles are showing wrong, invalid or weird information…

Pretty much everyone who does a search in Google on their mobile device and clicks on a Yelp listing and does not have the Yelp mobile app, is a frustrated user. Why…

Google has said time and time again that 404s are normal, they don’t cause penalties or indexing issues. But a similar question came up about 410s…

The other week we reported that Google doesn’t support real canonical for image search. But Google’s John Mueller clarified this morning that they do support it for PDFs in web search. He also added…

Although Google began crawling and indexing SVGs back in 2010, Google does not follow any links within the Scalable Vector Graphics. SVGs, Scalable Vector Graphics…

Gary Illyes from Google has confirmed on Twitter that the index status report within the Google Search console is “broken right now.” So Google is aware of the issues but the index status count may not be accurate for you…

Roberto Bayardo, a research scientist at Google, who works specifically on computational advertising, joked on Google+ that his web site no longer ranks on the first page of Google for [bayardo].

He said shortly after that maybe he needs to go HTTPS t…

Here is a quicky, just in case you didn’t know. Google doesn’t support the rel=canonical tag for redirecting images from one URL to another.

Jon Henshaw posted a screen shot of Google showing him and only him a message in the desktop search results that his pages have AMP implementation errors. He spotted the error when doing a search and noticed that in the snippet…

In the Google+ hangout from Friday morning at the 28:45 mark into the video, John Mueller said Google is indeed working on supporting the latest version of Schema.org…