Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Google’s mobile usability report within Google Webmaster Tools is currently running a two-week delay.

If you check out your report, you will see the last updated date was on January 13…

Over the past 36 hours, I’ve been seeing sporadic reports from webmasters that their link data within Google Webmaster Tools is either now being under reported or coming up as “unavailable…

Over the past few months, there have been several complaints in the Google News Help forums from Google News publishers complaining that Google is not sending them as much traffic as they once did.

Google News has a method of submitting a feed to them of just your “Editors’ Picks.” Stories you think are exceptional and deserve more attention on Google News should be ticked off as Editors Picks…

Google launched a mobile testing tool a few months back and since then, Google has been educating webmasters around how the tool works and what prevents it from working.

Such as blocking or cloaking GoogleBot can set it off on the wrong path…
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Remember the Google News publisher who was furious that his Google News site was removed from Google because it copied news stories from other sites…

Remember the Google News publisher who was furious that his Google News site was removed from Google because it copied news stories from other sites…

The folks at the Local Search Forums are chatting about a pattern they’ve been seeing for the past several months around closed local listings.

When a business is marked as closed on Google Maps…

The folks at the Local Search Forums are chatting about a pattern they’ve been seeing for the past several months around closed local listings.

When a business is marked as closed on Google Maps…

As you may remember, Google made HTTPS a small ranking signal and many SEOs and webmasters flocked to switch their sites to be fully HTTPS. Heck…

As you may remember, Google made HTTPS a small ranking signal and many SEOs and webmasters flocked to switch their sites to be fully HTTPS. Heck…

A couple weeks ago, I reported that Google’s John Mueller explained that theoretically you do not need to disavow to get out of Penguin, you can try to build links out of Penguin. But the truth is, he said it is an algorithm and he was just explaining…

A couple weeks ago, I reported that Google’s John Mueller explained that theoretically you do not need to disavow to get out of Penguin, you can try to build links out of Penguin. But the truth is, he said it is an algorithm and he was just explaining…

The purpose behind app indexing and deep links is to enable someone who searches on their smartphone to be able to click from the search results directly into the relevant content within an app they have on their phone…

Everyone recommends that you set up custom 404/410 pages, so that if someone lands on the page…

It is uncommon, but some sites actually work and run off their IP address, instead of a domain name. DNS, the domain name system, was created to give people an easy way to find a web site, but a domain name…

Google is sending mass scale notifications via email and Webmaster Tools warning sites that are not mobile-friendly that it will cause issues for them if they want to rank well for smartphone users.

This is the first time Google is sending these notif…

Google announced that they’ve upgraded the events based knowledge graph to show official ticket links, comedian events…

Now, you can markup your web sites so that if your brand comes up in the search results, it can potentially show social profile links to your social channels. Google supports showing social profile links to Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, YouTu…

Google has many updates to their Structured Data Testing Tool since launching in 2009, including renaming it in 2012 but yesterdays update may be one of the larger updates.