Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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…

It makes sense that if you do something wrong to a friend or colleague, they may trust you less. For them to forgive you, it might take time. You might have to prove to them over that time that you are not taking advantage of them by forgiving them t…

The other day we reported how Gary Illyes said keywords in TLDs, like those new keyword based TLDs…

In February we reported that Google said it is a myth to believe that crawl rate spikes are early signs of an upcoming algorithm update. Gary Illyes from Google told us it was a myth…

Elena L. from Google posted a help thread in the Google Webmaster Help forums about how some publishers may not be using the proper specifications for implementing the AMP logos. She said Google noticed a nice number of publishers incorrectly implemen…

Google’s Gary Illyes posted a PSA on Twitter saying if your crawl rate changed after switching your site over to a CDN, that you should let them know about it…

Yesterday we covered some tips on managing disavow link file issues with syntax issues, encoding issues, etc of the URLs. So after, as I expected…

We’ve been covering the Google zombie phenomenon for some time now. There is actually a spike in discussion around it in the ongoing WebmasterWorld thread right now…

Joy Hawkins asked another excellent local SEO question in the Local Search Forums the other day. She asked why do some business listings get a local one box result…

I always find it interesting when a Googler responds to a specific SEO question with an audit like response…

Valentin Pletzer, a Senior Search Analyst at BurdaForward in Germany, asked a nice question in the Google Webmaster Help forums about AMP and Google News.

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