Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

During the Stone Temple Consulting Q&A with Gary Illyes last night on YouTube, Eric Enge told Gary that when he removed a ton of low quality pages from a client’s site, their traffic didn’t change much, their indexed pages did drop…

During the Stone Temple Consulting Q&A with Gary Illyes last night on YouTube, Eric Enge told Gary that when he removed a ton of low quality pages from a client’s site, their traffic didn’t change much, their indexed pages did drop…

Gary Illyes from Google said on Twitter that most algorithm updates done by Google go “unnoticed.”

I am not sure I agree, with that…

Gary Illyes from Google said on Twitter that most algorithm updates done by Google go “unnoticed.”

I am not sure I agree, with that…

Google’s John Mueller announced on Google+ that they’ve updated the AMP error report in the Google Search Console. John explained that they’ve “updated the categorization used there to better group similar issues…

Back in October of last year, Google warned webmasters about sneaky mobile redirects and that if you use them, they have the right to take action on your site.

For some reason…

Google’s John Mueller confirmed yesterday in a Google Hangout on Google+ that Google took action on major travel sites for showing product pricing rich snippets for airline prices…

Google’s John Mueller said yesterday in a Google Hangout on Google+ that if you use the tactic of submitting a sitemap of your old URLs to Google…

Yesterday, Google shared on the webmaster blog their 2015 webspam repot. They said they served up 4.3 million manual actions in 2015 and as @TheRealpmac calculated, that comes out to about 500 manual actions or Google manual penalties an hour…
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Yesterday we reported that Google is testing a new mobile friendly testing tool and migrating /webmasters to /search-console. Well…

It looks like Google is migrating Google Search Console from /webmasters to /search-console in the near future. Remember, Google rebranded Google Webmaster Tools as Google Search Console almost exactly a year ago. Since then…

One of the biggest complaints I see from webmasters about the Google Search Console is that messages you get about 404s or other issues that the webmaster is aware of…

Last September we reported that Google says it is best to keep redirects live for a year or so and even better…

Gary Illyes from Google said on Twitter that having a thriving community helps with rankings. He said “a healthy, thriving community on a site…

Earlier this month, Google’s In Depth articles search features mysteriously dropped out. I emailed Google about 5 times asking for a comment, almost each time they said they would get back to me and never did. But now…

Google’s Paul Haahr, one of the most knowledge people around the Google ranking signals…

Gary Illyes from Google said on Twitter yesterday that this may be the last Penguin update. He said “it’s likely there won’t be next one,” referring to the next Penguin update.

I see so many SEOs always cite the page speed of a site when it comes to why a site may not rank that well. Truth is, from what I understand, the only way page speed impacts a site’s rankings in Google is if the site is unbearably slow…

In the Google Hangout this past Friday on Google+ with John Mueller, John discussed how manual actions and algorithmic penalties are different…

A month ago we reported that Google is dropping the iPhone user agent for the Android version and that would happen on April 18th.

I actually checked this morning to see if the Google Search Console removed the “upcoming” version so webmasters can che…