Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Friday, Google posted a warning on the Webmaster blog that if you get a product to review from a manufacturer or wherever, make sure that you nofollow any links back to the person/company who sent you that product…

Google’s John Mueller confirmed on Twitter that content placed in the <aside> tag is treated similarly to other content on the page…

Google’s John Mueller said in a Google+ hangout this morning at the 5:40 mark that Google may show where your page was shown in the search results page. Specifically if you were in the featured snippets box or AMP page carousel or something like that…..

Sometimes Google will use DMOZ, the old old web directory, in their search results. They may use the DMOZ description of your web site for the search results snippet in Google. They use to use DMOZ as their web directory but killed it off in 2011…
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This morning in a Google Hangout on Google+, John Mueller said he is decided to skip a bunch of questions on the topic of being more transparent…

A question was submitted to the Google+ hangout this morning about a site being penalized by Penguin 3.0 back in 2014 and asking for Google to manually update it so the site can break free of the penalty…

The Google App Indexing API for iOS recently fixed a bug where it would result in over energy consumption when the app was running and sometimes lead to the app crashing. Google said they recently fixed this bug in the Google Webmaster Help forums…
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Remember when Google killed off authorship in 2014? I am sure you do. But remember when I covered in October 2015 that Google says you should keep authorship markup on your site if you haven’t removed it yet…

Tom from Google posted four steps to help those wishing to clean up their AMP errors in the Google Search Console. Those who went AMP already are noticing many errors popping up in the Search Console reports. Especially those who use that WordPress …

In November 2015, Google launched their App Install Interstitial Penalty which targeted a very specific and niche interstitial add. It was/is easy to get around technically…

Another tidbit that came out of Google Paul Haahr’s SMX West talk was an experiment Google ran before he even joined the company 14 years ago. He said they ran this long term experiment from 2001 or so through 2005 where they would swap positions 2 a…

At SMX West last week, Google’s Paul Haahr, a top engineer involved in core ranking, had a keynote Q&A with Danny Sullivan. He said many interesting things including that Google doesn’t fully quiet understand RankBrain…

Again, at SMX West last week, Paul Haahr from Google said that when Google launched their knowledge graph in 2012, they decided to put entities at the forefront of their query analysis…

John Mueller of Google posted a detailed update on how Google currently handles JavaScript sites (including AJAX) and Progressive Web Apps in their index, crawling…

Yesterday at SMX West in the How Google Works: A Google Ranking Engineer’s Story session Gary Illyes of Google was asked about the Penguin 4.0 update…

Paul Haahr, one of the senior folks at Google who work on search rankings, said at SMX West yesterday that position 10 gets way more clicks than positions 8 or 9. He explained that no one wants to click to the next page…

If you can’t tell by all the Google AMP articles we’ve written here, AMP is a big deal at Google.

Dave Besbris, Vice President of Engineering at Google said at SMX West this week that “everywhere we use content…

Dr. Pete Meyers from Moz reports that the Mozcast feature graph is indeed correct in showing that featured snippets are now showing up almost 17% more often…

As you know, Google AMP went live last week and the only significant change is that the AMP lightening bolt icon went from green to gray.

But yesterday at SMX West, Dave Besbris, Vice President of Engineering at Google said that the news carousel wil…

I covered this last night at Search Engine Land, but I am asked this often. If you submit a spam report to Google, does Google even listen to it.

Well, yesterday at SMX West, Google’s Juan Felipe Rincon said Google does look at those reports…
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