Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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…

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…