Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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…

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.