Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Both RankRanger and Mozcast are showing a nice uptick in the number of HTTPS results in the top Google results…

John Mueller of Google confirmed this morning on Twitter that Google now supports JSON-LD format/schema for breadcrumbs.

Currently, the documentation for breadcrumb schema makes no mention of JSON-LD, but John Mueller said that will change…

As you know, Google hosted an AMA with the Google Brain Team yesterday on Reddit and I went through the 742 comments in the thread to pull out any references to search, RankBrain or rankings and honestly…

Google’s John Mueller said in a Google+ hangout this morning at the 8:09 mark that after you “recover” from a penalty, “it’s almost never going to be that we will just restore the previous state” of your rankings you had prior to the penalty…

In the Google+ hangout this morning a typical question around why isn’t Google showing rich snippets for my site when the tool shows everything is valid came up. A typical question and we know Google doesn’t show rich snippets for many sites because i…

A couple days ago, I reported how the founder of Techmeme was complaining about the false positive errors on Google Search Console around hacked spam…

This isn’t a new topic, we covered PDFs and duplicate content before, but this morning John Mueller was more specific.

On Twitter John Mueller of Google said that if you offer a PDF download link that lets users download the web content they are looki…

There seems to be a bug with the Google Search Console’s Links To Your Site report where many are saying it shows “no data available.” In fact, I am able to replicate it on many Google Search Console profiles I have in my account…

It is rare to see Google publicly say they are going to or have penalized a specific company or network but they did so earlier this morning…

As we reported last week, Google began sending notifications via Google Search Console to non-news sites about getting their pages ready for AMP. Now, for sites that are ready for AMP but are not news…

On August 1st, we reported there was a bug with the Google Search Console data in the Search Analytics report. In short, Search Analytics would mislabel the mobile and tablet search traffic as being desktop traffic between the dates of July 29th and A…

A couple weeks ago we reported that Google said that all flavors of 30x redirects pass PageRank fully, there is no dilution he said. So of course, there was some debate on that but it seems like the way Gary Illyes put it…

As you know, AMP is expanding to core mobile search results in Google. And now…

John Mueller of Google said on Twitter that the GoogleBot user agents do not change based on the type of content they are crawling on the web, specifically…

The SEO debate on using subdomains and subdirectories is one of those things that will never die. But Google’s John Mueller said in a Google Hangout on Google+ the other day that it really doesn’t matter that much…

Google posted on the data anomalies page for the Google Search Console that they have downgraded the structured data errors from errors to information notes…

Yesterday Google announced their plans to expand AMP, accelerated mobile pages, from the top news section, where it first launched in February, to the ten blue main links in the mobile results.

They said first, they are launching it in a preview form …

Adam from Google said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that Google’s Firebase App Indexing now added Bitcode support for iOS Apps. He wrote…

Google has posted a help document named What are impressions, position, and clicks? This document is one of the most comprehensive and authoritative…

As you know, in March, Google officially turned off toolbar PageRank for displaying, well, it went dead in mid-April of this year. But that doesn’t mean Google doesn’t use PageRank internally, they do.

Gary Illyes of Google was asked this and he said…