Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Yesterday in that Google Hangout on Google+ with John Mueller, John said at the 22:28 mark that Google updates schema, structured markup and rich snippets almost immediately…

At the Search Marketing Summit in Sydney today, Gary Illyes from Google has been reported as saying that page speed ranking factors for mobile, will be mobile specific, in the upcoming months…

I was confused yesterday when I was just checking out the mobile friendly testing tool and I Googled [google mobile friendly test] and clicked on the first result and saw the old tool…

Harmit Kamboe posted on Twitter a screen shot of a search result that showed rich snippet content for “promotion” deals. It is weird…

I always love it when big brands go into the Google help forums and ask for help, I love it even more when they get help from Googlers…

This is not a new topic, in 2015 we covered that Google implied external links are not a ranking factor and in 2016 we covered that Google said external links are NOT a ranking factor and then a third-party study said external links ARE a ranking facto…

I think this is the last item from the Friday Google+ Google hangout that I have to write about, this one is on duplicate content, copied content from one site to another, which we covered a lot here…

Google announced they added some features to AMP including a sidebar menu, social sharing embedding, dynamic CSS classes and accordions. Yes, accordions…

Google’s John Mueller and friends do a ton of what they call “office hours…

Google’s John Mueller and friends do a ton of what they call “office hours…

I am receiving reports via email and I am seeing them in the forums, including WebmasterWorld that something changed with Google’s search results where they are now showing more foreign results in their search results…

Six months ago, we reported that Google was working on letting you combine your Google Search Console properties into “sets.” Well…

Google’s John Mueller said in a Google+ Friday morning that Google is likely going to kill off the Content Keywords report in the Google Search Console. He said this at the 32 minute mark citing it causes confusion around how Google ranks pages and t…

We’ve covered Google giving webmasters advice after being hit by a penalty to start a new web site several times here. But John Mueller of Google said on that Google+ Friday morning hangout that “I’d say it is really rare that I’d recommend that peop…

Just this week, Google brought a new filter to the Google Search Console’s Search Analytics report for showing AMP results in the report. Well, it seems like two additional filters are coming to the Google Search Analytics report including featured sn…

In the the Google I/O session named Search and the mobile content ecosystem, Google’s Richard Gingras announced Google is currently piloting a real time indexing API designed to allow Google to index content from publishers in, well…

Richard Gingras from Google in his Google I/O session named Search and the mobile content ecosystem shared two nice tidbits on AMP. The first is that they indexed 125 million AMP documents across 640…

In a webmaster hangout on Google+ this morning, Google’s John Mueller basically said there is no good way to redirect a web site that has a penalty to a new…

Earlier this week we reported that many of those who received a manual action for sneaky mobile redirects were unable to submit a reconsideration request. Well after some time…

As we broke first (yes, we are the best), Google renamed Google App Indexing to Firebase App Indexing. Truth is, the code base is the same…