Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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…

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…