Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

GoogleBot typically crawls from the United States, not 100% of the time. In fact, Google recently began crawling on a limited basis from other countries but only to check on local-aware features…

Every several months or so the topic of Google and social signals comes up and each time it gets into a Googlers hands…

Search Engine Land, a site I am proud of, posted a sponsored piece of content named Can moving to a new TLD boost search rankings…

Whenever the automated tracking “SEO Weather” tools go off, I get tons of people telling me there was an update. They tell me this not based on them noticing any ranking changes, traffic changes or changes to the search results but based on the tools …

hreflang is markup you can add to your web sites to help communicate which URL Google should show in the search results for localized versions of Google. So if you have a UK site and a Germany site…

Zineb Ait Bahajji, one of the well liked Webmaster Trends Analysts at Google…

Yesterday, Google announced a new tool that uses two old tools designed to make it easier for small businesses to improve their site’s mobile friendliness and page speed. So they combined the page speed and mobile friendly tool into one…

Most SEOs know that if you start a new site, the URL structure should use hyphens to separate the keywords and not underscores. So for this URL for this blog…

The topic of faceted navigation is a complex one in the SEO space. It comes up often for large e-commerce sites that have category pages with tons of filer options for colors, sizes, options, etc etc. What do you allow Google to index and what do you…

Yesterday, In a Google Hangout on Google+ with John Mueller, John said at the 24:20 mark that using the info command on Google will show you which domain Google holds to be the canonical version in their index.

For example, if you search in Google for…

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…