Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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…

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…