Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Earlier this month, Google added a captcha to their crawl and submit to index feature in the Google Search Console’s Fetch as Google tool. Now…

Google is now sending out notifications for “Social engineering content detected” on your web site and sometimes it looks like the notifications are not valid…

A week ago we reported that Google will not offer SEO certification period. But now we see Google has messaging that they do offer certified Google partners that offer SEO.

Aaron Wall spotted it and posted the details on Twitter…

Yesterday, it seems Google has sent out a surge in “Incorrect Hreflang Implementation” notifications via the Google Search Console. The first time we saw this message was back in July 2015 and since, we haven’t seen many – that is until yesterday…
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Google has added a section in the Google Webmaster Help forums for AMP (accelerated mobile pages) webmaster related questions. You can access the forum section over here.

The section already has 26 topics posted in it and has its very own Google pres…

The Mozcast Features report shows a 14.5% drop in the reviews snippets showing up in Google over the past day compared to the day prior. This is a massive drop compared to the stability is has shown over the past several months…

Yesterday I posted somewhat of a sarcastic post on Google teasing us with more Search Analytics data again…

Zineb from Google said on Twitter that Google is still talking about giving webmasters more than 90-days worth of data in the Google Search Console.

@Jonny_J_ we are thinking about it, but no big update right now…

John Mueller in a Google Hangout on Google+ this past Friday was asked a question around why would a site that is mobile-friendly according to Google, not rank as well on mobile search than it does on desktop search…

As you all know, I read a lot about search news on both official news sites, large and small blogs and all the way down to social media posts and forum posts. The news sites…

Zineb from Google posted on Twitter in French that Google doesn’t want to clutter the search results with too many rich snippets. She said, “enfin, nous essayons de ne pas trop “encombrer” les SERPs avec trop de sites avec RS. Du coup…

All this back and forth on when Google will launch Penguin 4.0 is getting to everyone. Will it be Q1, why wasn’t it in January or in 2015…

Truth is…

For those wondering when Google will release Penguin 4.0, well – I don’t have any new information for you. We expected it in 2015 and the holidays delayed it to 2016… Gary Illyes doesn’t know…

Google’s John Mueller confirmed in a Google Hangout on Google+ this past Friday that the Search Analytics report in the Google Search Console does not count impressions and clicks from the Knowledge Graph sidebar…

A couple weeks ago we mentioned at the bottom that you can edit your knowledge graph via a tip from @ChrisGDunn. Well, it has been showing up more…

Often I’ll see webmasters and SEOs say that they see a huge spike in GoogleBot crawl activity on their web sites and thus, they are expecting to see an update in the upcoming days…

Last week we covered that Google Investigating Polish Hacker Who Is Stealing Webmaster Rankings. It was a case of a hacker using iframes and hacking into other sites…

While most SEOs want SEO certification by a formal and trusted organization…

Google’s Gary Illyes said in a Google hangout with Stone Template Consulting yesterday that the engagement levels on the App Install button for those app developers who integrated Google App Indexing is very low…