Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

This may or may not be obvious to you but if you use Google AdSense and you were banned from AdSense…

Three years ago, Google promised webmasters a full year of data in the Google Search Console, currently we get 90 days. But that promise has never been kept, not yet at least.

A few months ago…

Gary Illyes from Google said last night at SMX Advanced that you cannot optimize for RankBrain and there is no RankBrain score.

As you know…

In the closing remarks from Google’s Gary Illyes at SMX Advanced last night, which you can watch on Facebook…

More news out of the SMX Advanced AMA with Google with Gary Illyes, which you can watch on Facebook, was that Gary said they are still working on the mobile only index.

Previously…

Google announced that Google Analytics is now getting some of the messaging features from Google Search Console. This one is about hacked site alerts…

Back in early November, Google’s John Mueller implied you may be more likely to get featured snippets if you use structured markup on those pages. Then shortly after, Gary Illyes from Google said Google does not use structured markup for featured snip…

Google has quietly added a “rich result” filter in the Google Search Console’s Search Analytics report…

We’ve been covering the phenomenon of Google Zombie traffic since October of last year and covered it several more times in the past.

So John Mueller from Google asked on Twitter for specific examples and then when he got some…

Conrad O’Connell @conradoconnell reported on a new Google Search Console Mobile Usability report user interface. It looks a lot like the new mobile testing tool interface which they released a few weeks ago…

In Google Hangout on Google+ from last week, Google’s John Mueller said at the 54:15 mark that links found within the link tool in the Google Search Console are within Google’s index.

Simon in the hangout asked about it because he believed that ofte…

We’ve written about Google AMP a lot here and I wanted to share a recent hangout from last week with Googlers such as John Mueller, Emeric…

This is an obvious point for most of you, but Google’s John Mueller explained on Twitter that even if a page isn’t in Google’s cache, it can still rank just as well as other pages.

He wrote, “pages can rank without an accessible cache…

Yesterday we reported that Google added compare option for search analytics queries but it is more than that. As Jennifer Slegg noticed and posted on Twitter they also added it across the Search Analytics across Queries, Pages, Countries…

We’ve covered how Google handles A/B testing and that they are cool with it. But someone asked in a Google Hangout on Google+ how long is too long for an A/B test. John Mueller from Google wouldn’t give a specific time frame but he said don’t let it st…

In a Google Hangout on Google+ this morning with Google’s John Mueller, he said that when you recover from a Google Manual Action and you get the notice, it should also show up in the manual actions viewer within Google Search Console within a day or t…

The Web Promo folks had an excellent Q&A on duplicate content with Google’s John Mueller and Andrey Lipattsev and SEOs including Ammon Johns, Bill Slawski, Eric Enge and Jennifer Slegg…

The other day we reported that Google is seeking information from those who switched to CDNs and saw GoogleBot crawl rates change. Google’s Gary Illyes said then “if you switch to a cdn and your crawl rate drops…

The Google Search Analytics feature in the Google Search Console has added a new feature that let’s you compare two different queries. You can access this by going to the Google Search Console…

We rarely cover any Google Panda topics anymore, since really it has gone continuous – which makes me wonder.

So at the 18:05 mark into the video, I asked if Panda is still running by itself. John Mueller said it is…