Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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…

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…