Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Looks like Google added a new data type to the structured data options for search, this one is named Science Datasets. Google said this schema is for the “scientific domains: life sciences, earth sciences, material sciences, and more…

One of the bigger questions folks are asking since Google launched Penguin 4.0 on Friday was if it was fully rolled out. Google was clear when they said it is rolling out but they didn’t say how long it will take to roll out…

PWAs, progressive web apps, is a Google protocol that helps make richer mobile web pages that act like mobile apps but they are not native iOS or Android apps.

For the past few months…

Google posted on Google+ and Twitter a request to webmasters to complete a survey on accelerated mobile pages, AMP.

Google wrote…

Another update to the data anomalies page this morning was for the Search Analytics report section which says that App Indexing users may see a drop in the impressions and clicks because AMP now will be listed before App URLs…

Google posted in the data anomalies page for Search Console under the Accelerated Mobile Pages Report that they updated the report based on updating their “scanning process” for errors. It reads:

You might see a fluctuation in your AMP data…
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About a month ago, Google announced the new mobile interstitial penalty, which will be coming to a Google penalty box on January 10…

I’ve been hearing some chatter here and there around some sites that have deployed AMP, accelerated mobile pages, are seeing huge surges in traffic from the In The News box.

The thing is, I am personally seeing this as well…

As you all know, we’ve been busy covering many of the Google ranking shifts over the past few weeks – all of which have gone unconfirmed…

Google’s John Mueller said in a Webmaster Hangout ten days ago (yea, I’ve been saving this one) on YouTube at the 37:40 mark that Google is working…

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…