Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Gary Illyes, the man to blame at Google for the HTTPS algorithm, shared a “small” analysis Google ran on HTTPS URLs…

Zineb Ait Bahajji from Google’s Webmaster Trends team was in a Google+ live hangout just a couple hours ago with Pierre Far from Google and attempted to answer a very popular SEO question…

After Google announced a small ranking boost for going HTTPS – many webmasters began migrating their sites from HTTP to HTTPS.

Would I recommend everyone do it for the ranking boost. Absolutely not. But maybe you want to consider it for other reason…

Last night at SMX West during the Meet The Search Engines panel, Google’s Gary Illyes was supposedly quoted as saying that Panda, the Google algorithm, is constantly running, instantly…

As we approach the April 21st date, the day the mobile-friendly algorithm goes live, webmasters are a bit anxious about getting their web sites mobile-friendly.

At SMX West…

Yesterday, Google announced they will be officially getting into selling auto-insurance through google.com/compare/autoinsurance/. Yes, this is a big deal but SEOs took notice of the blog post announcing it…

The SEO community is buzzing heavily around a paper (PDF) published by Google named Knowledge-Based Trust: Estimating the Trustworthiness of Web Sources.

The paper describes how Google can rank the most factually accurate web pages higher in the searc…

The hreflang questions are some of the most interesting ones I see in the forums because it addresses things across domains, duplication, language handling…

Many SEOs have tons and tons of sites in their Google Webmaster Tools accounts, either from new existing clients…

Many SEOs have tons and tons of sites in their Google Webmaster Tools accounts, either from new existing clients…

Google said the other day that they are now going to warn searchers before going to sites that trigger unwanted downloads…

Google’s John Mueller said in a Google+ hangout on Friday morning at the 13:45 mark that when you move a site from one place to another, Google will typically crawl faster to pick up on those URL changes in a more expedited manner…

A couple weeks ago we posted how Google’s John Mueller said he would avoid link building in general, but in that, he said you can enable people to easily link to you by offering a widget or something.
John was asked about widgets for link building…
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The other week, I reported that with Google News specifically, the recommendation is that your titles and H1s be consistent.
Now a Google Webmaster Help thread

It seems like Google may be testing a new label in the search results for slow sites. K Neeraj Kayastha posted a screen shot of the “Slow” label in a Google+ community and said he spotted this on his Android device searching in incognito mode…
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Jackson Lo posted a screenshot on Twitter that Google Webmaster Tools is notifying him to update a plugin that he uses on his WordPress site.

It says that Google is aware he is using an outdated version of Slider Revolution…

It is not uncommon for a webmaster to complain that his competitors are cheating and doing great in Google but all his white-hat efforts are not being rewarded by Google…

I personally learned a lot from the Google News Webmaster Hangout on Google+ from a couple weeks ago and I keep pulling out pieces of that knowledge for you guys.

The next thing I learned was that if you wanted to…

A fairly common question I see in the support forums is why is Google crawling my robots.txt file.

Today I spotted a thread from a webmaster in the Google Webmaster Help forums where Google was crawling the mobile version of the robots.txt file, whi…

Back in September 2011, Google News introduced the standout tag, a way for publishers to say these specific stories are really exceptional and Google News readers should really see it.
But did you know…