Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Earlier last week, in a Google Hangout on Google+ at the 23:30 mark, John Mueller said Google does recommend that when you move a domain name, that you try to get those linking to the old domain to link to the new one…

Google posted there is a bug/error with the Google Search Console’s Search Analytics report that has assigned all your traffic in the devices section to be from desktop origin, as opposed to the mobile or tablet.

The bug is still open…

Google’s John Mueller said that Google may very well treat pages that no longer let you buy a product, i.e. the product is no longer available, as a soft 404. If you try to redirect that page to your home page, category page or an unrelated product…
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As we reported a couple days ago, Google once again said 3xx redirects do pass full PageRank and do not dilute. But as you also know…

In February, we covered the general FAQs for HTTP to HTTPS migrations but now Google’s Gary Illyes posted on the Google+ webmaster channel…

Here is the basic and obvious post of the day but hey, always good to go back to basics every now and then. One webmaster asked if Google may treat plural and singular words as different keywords and John Mueller of Google said yes, Google can…
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If a scraper site, a site that steals your content and posts it almost identically on their own domain with no value add, outranks you, then that is something you might want to tell Google about…

Google’s Gary Illyes said on Twitter yesterday that any type of 3xx redirect, a 301, 302, or any type, of 3xx redirect…

Yesterday morning, in a Google Hangout on Google+, John Mueller again addressed a question about if/when will Google roll out Penguin 4.0. As you know…

Yesterday, we reported how we saw emojis back in the Google results and as a coincidence, someone asked John Mueller in the Google Hangout on Google+ yesterday if Google will penalize sites that do that. John Mueller said no, they will not…

So you have a spam issue with your web site and your web site doesn’t rank well in Google. What do you do first…

John Mueller replied on Twitter to someone asking if they should remove comments that pretty much praise the blog post but don’t add any more value. Such as “great post” types of comments or as the user put it “This article really inspired me…
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Google’s John Mueller answered a question on Twitter on spam report. The question was what happens when a competitor of yours continues to report your site as spam. John Mueller implied you do not have to worry…

So yesterday, Google released a case study for the AMP site based on the Washington Post stats. So I wanted to take a look at traffic using Google Search Console and share my results with you…

Andrey Lipattsev from Google announced on YouTube and Google+ that they are offering a mobile site optimization clinic tomorrow at 10:30am ET (New York time). To participate…

@ChrisRussell shared an example of a featured snippet in Google that is in the form of a nicely structured table. That isn’t new but I wanted to show you how quickly featured snippets not only come and go for specific sites or queries…

It is just about 1 year and 9 months, over 90 weeks, almost 21 months, since Google ran the last Penguin update, aka Penguin 3.0. We’ve been hearing promises for months and months now that they will run it but the days come and go without any Penguin …

So we know Google isn’t a fan of pop ups on web sites, well, at least the webmaster analysts team isn’t a fan of them…

John Mueller in the Friday morning’s Google Hangout on Google+ said at the 54 minute mark that if you get a manual action and you want to submit a reconsideration request…

I am not sure where these myths come from…