Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

The Google Search Console added a new section under the Search Appearance section named “Rich Cards.” Rich Cards seem to be a section where Google will show you data about your rich snippets, schema, AMP…

Today is Google I/O and I am spotting a some changes to the Google docs that have not yet been announced. It seems Google has renamed it’s Google App Indexing to Firebase App Indexing…

As expected, Google has added a feature to the Search Analytics report within the Google Search Console to filter out how your AMP pages are doing.

After it leaking that Google was testing a new mobile friendly testing tool a couple weeks ago, today, Google officially announced the new tool that can be found here.

The new tool is slicker, less frightening…

As you know, Google Search Console will let you track your app’s analytics and crawl stats for Android apps. It also lets iOS app developers submit their iOS apps so they can do the app association to their web site…

During the Stone Temple Consulting Q&A with Gary Illyes on YouTube the other week, he spoke about crawl budget and how Google doesn’t necessarily crawl based on crawl budget. He said internally…

There seems to be a serious bug impacted some webmasters, mostly those who were notified of having sneaky mobile redirects on their site. It is around the renewed sneaky mobile redirects we covered earlier this month and starting a few days later…
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Google has revamped and redesigned the structured data testing tool. It now looks more friendly but adding this simplistic overlay box that either asks for the URL you want to test or a snippet of sample code.

When you plug it in…

Back in August 2012 Google released their DMCA algorithm penalty, also known as the Google Pirate penalty. It basically looked to downgrade site’s rankings where those sites received a large amount of real DMCA complaints. As far as I know…
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Yesterday, Google revealed deeper integration between Google Analytics and Google Search Console…

There are tons of concerns and complaints on Twitter and on Google Webmaster Help that the index count in the Google Search Console sitemap report has drastically dropped. Meaning…

In a Google Hangout with John Mueller earlier this month on Google+, John explained how it works when a thread in the help forums gets escalated to a Googler…

If you login to your Google Search Console account and click on the Search Analytics, you will vertical line on April 27, 2016 that says “update…

Google announced on the Google News blog that in an effort to promote local news publications, when stories in their local towns go national, Google News is now using a “local source” tag. The interesting thing is that this tag is automated…

It is officially well over 18 months, a year and a half since the last official Google Penguin update. The last Google Penguin update was on October 17. 2014 – Penguin 3.0…

Paul Shapiro notified me on Twitter that Google is showing a search carousel under Reddit search results. At first I thought it was the Google Live carousel feature but it looks more like the carousel under the snippets that typically is reserved for…

In a Google hangout from Friday on Google+, Google’s John Mueller said Google is looking for ways to break down both voice search and AMP traffic in the Google Search Analytics report…

A Google Webmaster Help thread has reports dating back to March 1st of a bug with the iOS App Indexing SDK from Google that would drain the power from apps, even when they are in standby mode.

The bug was just fixed recently in version 2.0.3 of the SD…

The folks at Stone Temple Consulting did another really nice interview with Google’s Gary Illyes and asked him some interesting questions…

The folks at Stone Temple Consulting did another really nice interview with Google’s Gary Illyes and asked him some interesting questions…