Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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…

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…