Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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…

Yesterday we reported that Google is aiming to use machine learning in spam algorithms, to better fight spam.

Shortly after I wrote that, former Google spam fighter Murat Yatagan…

Continuing with our coverage of the Google Q&A via WebPromo that we covered over the past day, with Andrey Lipattsev… He explained why some non-English language based Google search results appear easier to spam, even though the spam algorithms are global…

The debate on whether Google is telling the truth about click data, i.e. pogosticking, clicking on a search result and jumping back to the search results page shortly after, influences the rankings of that search result is a topic that won’t die…
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Surprise, surprise, the top three ranking signals in Google’s search ranking algorithm is content, links and RankBrain. Not necessarily in that order, but content and links are more important ranking signals than RankBrain…

A Google My Business Help thread has a local SEO who is furious with Google that over 60 of his clients were suspended from Google My Business (the local maps listings) overnight because he manages all these clients in a single account…

Google’s Andrey Lipattsev, a Search Quality Senior Strategist, said yesterday at the 42:40 mark in the video, based on a question from Rand Fishkin, that Google is exploring using machine learning with web spam…

Google’s John Mueller confirmed on Twitter that having space separated attributes in the nofollow attribute will still work as a nofollow.

He said rel=’external nofollow’ is the same as rel=’nofollow’ for the purpose of ensuring Google doesn’t follow…

On Twitter @dhinckley said that according to Moz over here, 302 redirects pass zero “link juice,” also known as PageRank. John Mueller said that is not true…

Former Googler, Pierre Far, spotted and posted on Google+ that the Google crawler (GoogleBot) now sends HTTP requests with English setting Accept-Language in the request header.