Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

So you have a spam issue with your web site and your web site doesn’t rank well in Google. What do you do first…

John Mueller replied on Twitter to someone asking if they should remove comments that pretty much praise the blog post but don’t add any more value. Such as “great post” types of comments or as the user put it “This article really inspired me…
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Google’s John Mueller answered a question on Twitter on spam report. The question was what happens when a competitor of yours continues to report your site as spam. John Mueller implied you do not have to worry…

So yesterday, Google released a case study for the AMP site based on the Washington Post stats. So I wanted to take a look at traffic using Google Search Console and share my results with you…

Andrey Lipattsev from Google announced on YouTube and Google+ that they are offering a mobile site optimization clinic tomorrow at 10:30am ET (New York time). To participate…

@ChrisRussell shared an example of a featured snippet in Google that is in the form of a nicely structured table. That isn’t new but I wanted to show you how quickly featured snippets not only come and go for specific sites or queries…

It is just about 1 year and 9 months, over 90 weeks, almost 21 months, since Google ran the last Penguin update, aka Penguin 3.0. We’ve been hearing promises for months and months now that they will run it but the days come and go without any Penguin …

So we know Google isn’t a fan of pop ups on web sites, well, at least the webmaster analysts team isn’t a fan of them…

John Mueller in the Friday morning’s Google Hangout on Google+ said at the 54 minute mark that if you get a manual action and you want to submit a reconsideration request…

I am not sure where these myths come from…

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…