Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Ryan Schilling noticed Google showing a phone icon and phone number under some of the organic mobile search results. He posted a screen shot of it on Twitter. I was not able to replicate it on any of my devices…

A few weeks ago, I reported about Google investigating a Polish hacker who is stealing webmasters Google traffic by hacking and tricking Google into thinking his domains are the original content…

What happens when you have dozens and dozens of JavaScript and CSS includes, some hosting internally and some hosted externally…

I wouldn’t be alarmed but the Google Search Console, Search Analytics report is delayed again. It is now stuck at February 23rd, typically today it would be up to February 27th or 26th. Typically, as we covered, Search Console data is about two-day…

Personally, I am a fan of having HTML Sitemaps – mostly for 404 like pages, so users who stumble on a page they are forbidden (sounds strict) to access, they have a way out but not out of your web site…

As you know, Google launched AMP in the mobile search results this week.

Back in December…

Google has added a new section to the structured data developer documents named Top Stories With AMP. The page pretty much describes how and where AMP stories show, which is in the top stories news carousel in the mobile search results…

Yesterday we reported that Google bought a link for $350,000 but explained it was a sponsorship and the intent was not to manipulate the search results.

Google’s John Mueller addressed this case in a Google+ hangout this morning. “It is a weird situa…

Google is sending errors via the Google Search Console to those who set up AMP pages to “fix errors on your AMP pages.” The error reads:

Google systems have detected that some of your AMP pages do not meet our guidelines and will therefore not show i…

Last week we reported that Google started to drastically drop review stars from their search results. Well, after about a week of going review star hungry…

Google’s John Mueller has an excellent post on Google+ explaining why the reports in the Google Search Console are delayed or not real time.

People ask Google all the time…

Update: Zineb later explained that Google doesn’t break out the featured snippets separately in the search console reports but they do count them. Sorry about that…

Google may be getting itself into hot water again with paid links. In 2012, Google Chrome was caught buying links and they ended up penalizing themselves for it…

It has been over a week since we last mentioned Penguin, so yesterday…

We reported that Google has mixed messaging around having an SEO Google Partner program. A week or so ago, Google said that they do not offer SEO certification but then shortly after that, Google posted a page saying they have an SEO partner program…..

On the data anomalies update page Google posted a notice that on February 5th and 8th of this year they made an “internal index updates” for mobile apps only. Google added “these changes do not affect end users so you should see no change on impressio…

Today is the 5th anniversary of the Google Panda update, which touched down on February 24, 2011. Yesterday, John Mueller of Google answered another question on Panda, and his answer I found interesting…

Not even a month ago, we reported that John Mueller of Google said that outbound links are not a ranking factor. He clearly said that and Google said it also last year.

But a new study by Reboot Online says they have pretty good evidence suggesting o…

I am now seeing reports around the web that Google AMP, the web page speed initiative backed by Google, is now live in the Google mobile search results. It was expected to go live any time now but AdAge reported that it would be tomorrow. I guess it i…

Marie Haynes shared a photo of Google’s new “Major Spam Problems” notification sent via the Google Search Console. This seems to be a replacement of the pure spam manual action…