Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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…

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…