Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Another tidbit coming out of the Google+ hangout yesterday is that Google confirmed the mobile-friendly algorithm being released on April 21st is a yes or no / on or off factor. Either you are mobile friendly in Google’s eyes or you are not…
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A Google Webmaster Help thread has a webmaster who has a ccTLD, specifically a .com.au (Australian top level domain) and he is concerned that over the past four months or so, his US origin traffic from Google search has spiked…

We are all looking forward to the mobile friendly algorithm being released by Google on April 21st, and with that comes a lot of preparation. Some of the tools being used are Google’s mobile testing tool and the mobile usability reports within Google W…

Old legacy sites are honestly one of the hardest web sites to make mobile-friendly. New web sites that are custom built or running off a popular CMS are relatively easy to convert but old static web sites are a real pain…

Google has published a resource to document the seven most common mistakes they find when webmasters make their web sites mobile-friendly.

Google announced the list on Twitter saying “here’s a curated list of mobile mistakes we commonly see…

If you go to any of the Google Webmaster Blogs in most languages, including the English version, the German version and many more…

You know you are a good SEO when you are able to make Google think that an informational or transactional query should result in your brand showing up in the knowledge graph section of the search results page…

Like I said before, everyone is getting ready for the April 21st date when Google is launching their mobile friendly algorithm but Google News publishers are asking…

Sometimes SEOs need a laugh because when the rankings are up and down it can be pretty stressful for them.

Jenny Halasz joked on Twitter saying that if John Mueller of Google said taking selfies would improve your Google rankings…

In a Google+ hangout, one of the questions asked to John Mueller of Google was about the change of address tool.
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If you had any doubt how big and “significant” the upcoming mobile-friendly ranking algorithm will be for Google’s mobile results, you should remove those doubts now…

Everyone is talking about the upcoming mobile friendly ranking factor coming up on April 21st for the mobile search results – but what is live already today as a ranking factor in Google mobile search is App Ranking…

Google announced they are sunsetting or discontinuing the original Webmaster Tools API first released back in 2008. The new one was announced in September 2014 and now Google is saying it is time to finally switch over to the new API because the old A…

When Google posted a blog post on approved A/B testing methods, they specifically said do not use user-agents when determining what to A/B test. Google wrote, “make sure that youâre not deciding whether to serve the test, or which content variant to serve…

Over the past week or so, there has been a lot of confusion over Google’s Panda algorithm. Specifically, does it run in real time or has it not run in over four months.

To me, it is crystal clear that the Panda algorithm has not refreshed or updated …

When Google released the well overdue Penguin 3.0 back in October of last year, we thought that would bring a faster running and more regularly and frequently updated refreshes to the algorithm…

A couple year ago, Google released best practices on how to make AJAX crawlable for search engines. But as I covered last week at Search Engine Land…

On March 9th, Google updated the review-specific usage guidelines and policies for reviews and rating rich snippets…

Last week we covered a new research paper Google published on ranking web pages based on facts. It turns out that some people felt that Google may be using it as a ranking factor in the near future…

Google announced on the webmaster blog they made two updates this morning to Google Webmaster Tools.

Both are fairly obvious changes around notifying webmasters about blocked resources preventing Google from properly crawling your web site in full…
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