Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Excuse the horrible job photoshopping the Santa hat onto John Mueller but he was up at 1:30am his local time, last night, Christmas eve, responding to Webmasters in the Google Help forums…

I asked Google’s John Mueller yesterday, based on an argument I had with a group of SEOs the previous Friday, if Google will also look at the mobile template to determine if content hidden…

A Google Webmaster Help thread has one webmaster asking why GoogleBot seems to be maxed out at crawling his site at 10 requests per second. The webmaster even documented the behavior over time and plotted it in this graph below…

Google App indexing is taking on and as more and more app developers start to integrate their app content within Google search, more and more questions arise.

App Indexing lets you send your mobile searchers directly to your content within your app……

Google revamped their local search algorithm, we named Google Pigeon, in July of this year. It was a significant change to how Google ranked and ordered the local search results both for local queries in Google search, and within Google Maps…
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This actually dates back at least a couple months, but no one really talked about it in our community until now. That is, the Google Knowledge Graph “Notable Alumni” carousel.

A WebmasterWorld thread has one user saying “it’s not inaccurate…
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Google News will be publishing a newsletter for publishers every now and then. The first one should be coming soon.

Stacy Chan from the Google News team posted in the Google News Help forum about it…

Google’s John Mueller answered a question in Stack Exchange about if GoogleBot uses SPDY for crawling the web.

The question:

When SPDY is available for a site, does Googlebot use it…

Google’s Gary Illyes posted a poll on Google+, which currently has only 70 votes…

It has been a while since we found much shuffling around Google Panda, which is not normal being that it most recently has been updating at least every few weeks or so…

Google acquired Metaweb back on July 16, 2010, which powered Freebase. Freebase is one of the sources of data Google uses to power their Knowledge Graph. Many SEOs were able to manipulate…

Jenny Mugridge posted at Cre8asite Forums saying that her former employer is now requiring all new and existing SEOs in the company to take polygraph tests…

Back in 2012, Google’s Matt Cutts said clearly that new TLDs do not rank better than any other TLD. He was killing a myth being spread by some domain name sellers.

There is a lot of speculation that Google has penalized another network, link network/private blog network. This time the speculation is around Get Indexed…

Google posted on several blogs yesterday an update on app indexing which includes how tos and some stats.

Here are two interesting stats:

(1) For signed-in users, 15% of Google searches on Android now return deep links to apps through App Indexing……

It looks like Google is now rolling out the mobile friendly labels globally and in all languages…

The Google Webmaster Central team posted on Google+ a poll asking users and webmasters which notifications they’d like to see added to the Google Webmaster Tools message center.

Google said, “A poll for those of you using a content management system o…

There are several reports within Google Webmaster Help forums and on social media that Google Webmaster Tools link reports are coming up blank.

I am personal able to replicate this on a few verified sites I personally have access to…

There has been a lot of confusion around content within tabs or “expand all” links. We covered it two different times and I thought I embed the latest John Mueller from Google had to say on this.

It is pretty fresh…

Even though we covered this a couple times, most recently in September, saying responsive design is not a ranking signal…