Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Gary Illyes of Google posted on Twitter tip about reconsideration requests. In short, if your web site is in Hebrew and you get a manual action notice…

Google has begun sending webmasters and publishers notifications via the Google Search Console that they should begin looking to make AMP (accelerated mobile pages) for their news site. The notification says “implement accelerated mobile pages (AMP) f…

Patrick Sexton asked if he can publish the new changes and additions made to the Google Webmaster Guidelines update I mentioned this morning. So here is his take on that. But first, Patrick Sexton is the author of Varvy.com and the co-founder of getl…

In the Google Hangout from earlier this week, John Mueller filled us up with yes and nos to is this a ranking factor or not, hence all the stories here covering that hangout…

Many blog platforms let you automatically show “related posts” based on the category, tag or content of the blog post you just published. In many cases, this is all automated but in some, you can do them manually…

Google has just replaced the Google Webmaster Guidelines document, known as the holy-grail of SEO guidelines for most in our community. It seems a lot of the content has been revised and updated, which may be part of the new webmaster home from Google….

Last week, I upset some people by the words I used in my headline of my story which read Google: Title Tags Are Not A Critical Ranking Signal. Truth is…

This week, we had two different Googlers answer questions about link placement on a web page and how it differs having links in your main body content versus links in your footer, header, boilerplate content…

Google’s John Mueller answered a question in the Google Hangout at the 19 minute mark about is it better to go with short or long URLs. We know Google said don’t go over 2,000 characters in your URL and we know Google may try to shorten your URLs over…

You often see SEOs or hosting companies recommending you get your own IP address and keep your web sites separate across different IP blocks, this way you don’t fall in with a bad neighborhood. Truth is…

We know Google discovers and displays images very quickly in their search index, but once it is indexed, Google may take a really long time to discover the update.

For example…

Google will likely be expanding implementation support for rich snippets through JSON-LD. John Mueller confirmed this on Twitter after a webmaster said he saw websites using JSON-LD to power their product reviews rich snippets…

Matt Cutts of Google who is still on leave as far as we know, was on TWIG #336 and he spent about 15 minutes going through the core updates, Penguin…

For those interested in taking their web site, specifically news site, to the AMP (accelerated mobile page) environment – you may want to watch the latest Google Hangout where Emeric Studer from Google, the AMP Technology Manager…

After having a very unstable past couple weeks in terms of Google updates, this weekend was relatively calm. Last week we have a large core update and the week before massive fluctuations that were confirmed as core algorithm related as well…
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So we know Google News ranking is unaffected by the upcoming mobile friendly ranking algorithm. But we wanted to know if the In The News box that shows both news publishers and non-news publishers would be impacted…

Sometimes I find funny threads and I simply want to share them with you.

In a recent thread at the Google Webmaster Help forums, a webmaster dropped a keyword rich anchor text link and it caught the attention of John Mueller from Google…

Can you believe, the last official Google Panda refresh/update was Panda 4.1 on September 25, 2014? We’ve seen updates to it since, but those updates stopped around October 24, 2015, which is 5 months and 2 weeks or so ago.
I asked John Mueller of Goog…

Rahul asked Google’s John Mueller on Twitter if Google would display an old URL of a site in the Google search results even if it is redirected to a new URL and if so, could that be a duplicate content issue…

So a question many folks have been thinking about in regards to the April 21st mobile-friendly Google algorithm was what if a brand is not mobile-friendly and someone searches for them after April 21st on their mobile device…