Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Google’s John Mueller covered lots and lots of myths this past Friday in the Google Hangout on Google+. He said at the 34:37 minute mark that having short articles won’t give you a Google penalty. He also said that even some long articles can be confu…

Now, I do not know if authorship was ever a ranking signal but I assume Google tested it to see if it should be. And we now know Google said it is safe to remove authorship…

This morning I woke up to dozens of reverification notices from Google Search Console for dozens of different profiles…

In a Google Hangout this morning on Google+, Google’s John Mueller said at the 43:45 mark that Google doesn’t use contact information on a web site, i.e. if they have it or not…

Google’s John Mueller had a lot to say this morning, he said basically, you should only disavow links when they are really problematic. If they are not relevant anymore…

Google added three new features to Google Now On Tap, which works on Android devices running Marshmallow or higher…

Google is now sandwiching in some of the first search results between two line separators. Google has used line separators in many ways in the search results but now they seem to be doing it for highly relevant queries…

John Mueller at Google said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that if your page load is dependent on the hashtag being triggered then you need to consider that many search engines do not support it. This isn’t a new SEO tip…

Google’s John Mueller said in a Google Hangout on Google+ last Friday that sometimes when href lang doesn’t get picked up, it might be that the header section of your HTML is broken…

I often speak to a lot of SEO newbies when I do talks or travel or even via emails and other communications. I find myself telling people in this space the same thing over and over again. Each page, each URL…

Google’s John Mueller said in a Google Hangout on Google+ last Friday that changing the URL or location of your XML sitemap has no impact on your crawling or indexing of your web site…

Google quietly posted on the data anomalies page that there was a “bookkeeping error” on Google’s end that may result in a drop in the number of pages indexed and number of indexing errors for your apps…

Last week, we reported that it is safe to remove authorship markup from you site, citing Gary Illyes who said Google now completely doesn’t use authorship anymore.

Yesterday, eBay announced they are experimenting with AMP pages for their massive auction e-commerce site. They had many hiccups but overall…

Google does not look at how expensive or cheap your products are for organic search rankings. They don’t rank better deals higher in the search results. They don’t downgrade the rankings of rip offs either…

Google’s John Mueller said in a Google Hangout yesterday on Google+ that it is really rare Google wouldn’t be able to find content (with the exception if it is blocked by you) that is accessible on the web.

He said this at the 15:43 mark into the vi…

So I was watching the Google Hangout with John Mueller on Google+ and someone asked a question that almost made me spit out my drink…

I didn’t see much coverage of the Hulu Google organic search drop outside of a post by Bartosz Goralewicz over here but after a two or so week drop in Google organic placement and traffic, Hulu is back.

All the tools to track this concur including SE…

Steven Levy, world famous author, wrote on Back Channel a bit about RankBrain, here is the quote:

It turned out the answer was yes, and the system is now part of search…

So after almost two years since Google officially killed authorship, Gary Illyes from Google said it is finally safe to remove authorship markup from your pages.

Just a few months ago, Gary said don’t remove authorship from your pages…