Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Last night, Bill Hartzer spotted that the link operator, i.e. [link:www.seroundtable.com] no longer returns results. Well, he is right, for some domains but for others, it does seem to work.

But for sites like [link:searchengineland.com] it does wo…

Android Studio 2.0, which was released a few days ago now supports integration with Google App Indexing.

Google App Indexing Integration & Testing has been added directly to the studio. If you “add App Indexing into your app helps you re-engage your users…

At SMX West in a few weeks I am moderating a panel named What You Need To Know About Google App Indexing. In that panel…

In the past month or so, there has been an uptick in the number of manual actions seen around “Spammy Structured Markup” or rich snippet manual actions.
The reason might not be

There is a thread in the Polish Google Webmaster Help forums that I’ve been tracking for a while. I don’t speak Polish, but I’ve been given help on the translation from both Google Translate and webmasters…

Google’s Stacie Chan announced in the Google News Help forums that they launched a new feature in the Google News Publisher center to test your URLs with the Troubleshooting Tool.

You can access it in the left menu after logging in…

The Google Japan Webmaster Blog announced that they have penalized a link network there for trying to manipulate Google search results rankings…

Glenn Gabe shared a screen shot of a featured snippet in Google on Twitter the other day. In short…

As we expected, Google confirmed last night that they now support using JSON-LD for some structured data markup including reviews and product rich snippets.

In the Google hangout from last week on Google+ at the 17:50 minute mark John Mueller of Google said that keywords in the URL is a “very small ranking factor.”

The question: “Keyword in the URL…

In the hangout from last week on Google+ at the 17:27 minute mark Google’s John Mueller said he doesn’t think reviews left on your local business has a direct impact on your web search organic rankings. He said “With regards to web search, as far as I…

Well, January was a super busy month probably because of the code freeze as Matt Cutts explained. We had tons of Google updates earlier this month but all were part of the core algorithm. Google told us Panda is part of the core ranking algorithm now b…

This is probably obvious to most of you but I don’t think I covered a Google saying that 302 redirects to indeed pass PageRank…

Google’s John Mueller posted a FAQ on Google+ around questions asked about site migrations from HTTP to HTTPS. Truth is, I don’t see anything in there we didn’t cover already here when talking about HTTPS but it is a good refresher…

For iOS developers that have implemented the Google App Indexing API/SDK into their apps, they may be having a weird bug due to the Google SDK.

Specifically…

Google’s Fetch As Google feature within the Google Search Console now forces you to use a captcha each and every time you try to submit the page to the index. You can try it yourself…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that the Fetch As Google feature within the Google Search Console is only meant to be used for the web index.

This came up in regards to figuring out ways to speed up indexing old image URLs with new images…
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Despite AMP being super fast and quick, the Google Search Console reports for AMP errors and analytics are delayed…

When Google updated their Webmaster Guidelines yesterday, one of the changed was changes was around valid HTML.

Before it read…

Google’s John Mueller said in a Google Hangout this morning at the 55 minute mark saying that Google will be stepping up their efforts around structured markup throughout the year because it benefits them in how they understand a web page…