Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

I am receiving reports via email and I am seeing them in the forums, including WebmasterWorld that something changed with Google’s search results where they are now showing more foreign results in their search results…

Six months ago, we reported that Google was working on letting you combine your Google Search Console properties into “sets.” Well…

Google’s John Mueller said in a Google+ Friday morning that Google is likely going to kill off the Content Keywords report in the Google Search Console. He said this at the 32 minute mark citing it causes confusion around how Google ranks pages and t…

We’ve covered Google giving webmasters advice after being hit by a penalty to start a new web site several times here. But John Mueller of Google said on that Google+ Friday morning hangout that “I’d say it is really rare that I’d recommend that peop…

Just this week, Google brought a new filter to the Google Search Console’s Search Analytics report for showing AMP results in the report. Well, it seems like two additional filters are coming to the Google Search Analytics report including featured sn…

In the the Google I/O session named Search and the mobile content ecosystem, Google’s Richard Gingras announced Google is currently piloting a real time indexing API designed to allow Google to index content from publishers in, well…

Richard Gingras from Google in his Google I/O session named Search and the mobile content ecosystem shared two nice tidbits on AMP. The first is that they indexed 125 million AMP documents across 640…

In a webmaster hangout on Google+ this morning, Google’s John Mueller basically said there is no good way to redirect a web site that has a penalty to a new…

Earlier this week we reported that many of those who received a manual action for sneaky mobile redirects were unable to submit a reconsideration request. Well after some time…

As we broke first (yes, we are the best), Google renamed Google App Indexing to Firebase App Indexing. Truth is, the code base is the same…

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…