Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Google is sending out new Google Search Console notifications for pagespeed related topics. The notification being sent out reads “Google has detected that your site is currently running PageSpeed

Jennifer Slegg noticed on one of her older sites that Google is showing a notification directly in the mobile search results for the site that the site is not mobile friendly. The message Google shows in the snippet is “your page is not mobile-friendl…

John Mueller of Google answered a question in StackExchange on localization of content. In short, he said you should probably localize all the content on the page, including the alternative text for images…

People ask me all the time to ask Google questions on their live hangouts. I cover a lot of the hangouts, a lot of what John Mueller and friends say but I honestly do not ask that many questions. I don’t ask the questions because I feel bad hogging t…

We know that when you migrate from HTTP to HTTPS, Google does an extra special effort to pick up on the migration faster and pass all the signals…

Google’s John Mueller wrote on Google+ that both browsers and crawlers support HTTP/2 web server configuration and he recommends that if you have a choice, you go with it. But he made it clear that going HTTP/2 with your server does not have a direct …

This past month we still didn’t get that Penguin update but we are still crossing our fingers. We did see some signs of updates this past month but it wasn’t Penguin – some think possible Panda shuffles…

Google’s Paul Haahr, a lead ranking engineer at Google for 14+ years, had a nice conversation with the SEO community yesterday on Twitter.

Google has updated the quality raters guidelines PDF on March 28, 2016. The full version of the quality raters guidelines was first introduced in November 2015 and now keeps it live and updated for all to see…

Google Search Console seems to have a gap in data, literally a gap. If you go to the Google Search Analytics report, you will see that the 29th of March is missing data…

Yesterday, so this doesn’t seem like an April Fools prank, Google posted in their features updates page for Google My Business that they’ve updated their help document on local rankings.

Google’s Paul Haahr said on Twitter that he thinks the Google Quality Raters use their mobile devices primarily for rating the quality of the search results and Google test results…

I am not sure if you remember but at SMX West, we covered tons of tidbits coming out of a talk Google’s Paul Haahr gave named How Google Works.

Well…

Gerk Mulder shared an interesting screen shot on Twitter of Google indexing, ranking and displaying in the search results snippet a globe unicode URL. It looks like this…

Google’s Elena L. said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that the new news carousel that is powered by AMP content that went live on February 23rd is only live in 12 countries. Google will be expanding them to more countries but here is the full list …

We know Google uses alternative text, alt tags, in images for helping them understand what is an image is about. Google uses it for ranking images…

All of you know what a canonical does, right? It basically is a 301 redirect designed for spiders only – more on that over here. But many of you do not know…

A Cre8asite Forum thread has a discussion about is it bad to have a really high bounce rate on your site…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that if you have multiple title tags on the same page, it wouldn’t make sense but it wouldn’t cause problems for Google.

John wrote, “that wouldn’t make sense for Google, probably wouldn’t make sense for others ei…

I struggled with the title of this post, so please read through it so it all makes sense. In short, a person asked Gary Illyes from Google some time ago about duplicate content…