Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

A couple weeks ago, we reported that Google implied they do not index image title attributes. Meaning, if you place keywords in the title attribute of your image code, Google won’t use it at all…

Yesterday, Google posted a blog post on the webmaster blog that was actually posted months ago on the security blog, we covered it in February. So I was scratching my head as to why Google posted it months later on the webmaster blog…

This is a topic we’ve covered a lot here, what to do with out of stock products and Google. Truth is…

Back in October was the first time I introduced many of you to the Google Zombie traffic phenomenon. The definition of zombie traffic from Google are users that act like Zombies…

As we reported yesterday, Google slapped mass penalties for outbound links over the weekend. Google’s John Mueller commented on some of those threads last night…

Despite telling John Mueller of Google that I wouldn’t cover this, I now have to cover it…

Last week, I spotted former Googler Natalie Glance, who worked at Google as an Engineering Manager for almost 8 years, post on Google+ about spam in the Google search results.

Her former colleague, Todd Underwood from Google…

Google has issued a large number of unnatural links penalties over the weekend…

Google’s John Mueller said in a live Google hangout on Google+ at the 13:05 minute mark that serving multiple types of mobile friendly options on a single site…

Google’s John Mueller promised a couple weeks ago that he would dig deeper and document how Google handles the various types of redirects. Last night he posted those details on Google+. If you forget…

Often we will see Google issue out mass manual actions for link schemes or other webmaster guideline violations. We see it often when Google slaps a big link network or something of that nature…

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…