Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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…

Bill Elward spotted a featured snippet in Google that doesn’t use the primary content on the page but rather pulls from the comments section of the page. He posted the example on Twitter.

The query is [how much is gap insurance] and what comes up for…

Google’s linking guidelines are pretty clear where it says “the following are examples of link schemes which can negatively impact a site’s ranking in search results.” They include “large-scale article marketing or guest posting campaigns with keyword…

New Relic is a software service that helps you manage your cloud environment, I use it here for this server and for many of our cloud servers on AWS and RackSpace. But we recently reenabled it for this site and when we did, the AMP errors on this sit…

Last week we covered our continued coverage of the Google Zombie traffic only because there seemed to be a spike in the conversation around that topic in the past week or so…

Most SEOs know that Google’s database structure for storing content in their index is in shards. A database shard is a horizontal partition of data in a database or search engine. Each individual partition is referred to as a shard or database shard…..

Google’s John Mueller announced on Google+ that they made a few updates to the Google Search Console API. The updates include more data through pagination…

All this chatter about when Google will launch Penguin, will we know? Who will tell us…

We’ve covered footer and boilerplate content a lot here but Google’s John Mueller brought it up again when answering a question in a Google Hangout this morning on Google+…

So let’s say your site was hit by Google Penguin 3.0 almost 18 months ago and you feel you are doomed. John Mueller of Google said yes, while Penguin may have hurt you badly…