Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

To expand on Google and tabbed or click to expand content, Google’s John Mueller was asked about infinite scroll pages.

The question was at 17 minutes and 48 seconds into the video where he asked will Google index all of the content on your infinite s…

Over a year ago, Google launched App Indexing where you can deep link your app content using an XML document, so that if someone searches in Google’s mobile results on their Android device, and if they have your app, and if the query is relevant to you…

Last week, we reported how for many normal sites, the cache date listed in the Google Cache results, was a month or so old.

That continued like that until this morning, when I noticed the cache date is now showing only a few days back for basic stat…

Via Hacker News, yesterday, the search results quick direct answer from Google for [King Of United States] returned a Google Answer saying it was Barack Obama…

The other day, Google launched the mobile testing tool and since then…

Sometimes I just laugh reading the advice Googlers have to give webmasters.

Case in point: Google’s John Mueller responds to a thread in the Google Webmaster Help forums about properly how to use hidden content and not get in trouble with Google…
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There are several complaints in various forums, including WebmasterWorld, Google Webmaster Help and Twitter.

In short, the cache date shown by Google, for many sites, shows dates over a month old. Typically the dates are fresher than that…

The other day, I covered a thread around click to expand content not being indexed or ranked by Google. So I decided to ask John Mueller of Google that question in a live hangout on Google+ about a week ago and I was a bit surprised by his response……

In a Google hangout video, at 18 minutes and 50 seconds in, Google’s John Mueller answered a question around which desktop signals are used for mobile ranking as well…

Over the weekend, savvy webmasters and SEOs noticed a huge spike in complaints around manual actions issued within Google Webmaster Tools in the Polish regions. Google has indeed penalized a large link network in Poland.

Gary Illyes from Google posted on Google+ that he sees many large sites lose a ton of their pages in the Google index for misusing 403 status codes when they should be using 503s…

I think I have a good solution for the anger between publishers and Google over Google Answers. Offer action links within the search results answer box that publishers can select and manage within Google Webmaster Tools.

Since 2012, Google has been testing mobile-friendly labels in the search results. Most recently, Google ramped up those tests by testing mobile icons, not mobile friendly icons and text based mobile friendly labels…

So Google’s Penguin 3.0 roll out came and went (well, we are not 100% confident it is done rolling out). In any event…

There is a small but important bug with the Google Structured Data Testing Tool where if you try to use it, there is no button to click to see the structured data.

Here is a screen shot of what it looks like:

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A few months ago, Google acknowledged that render your full page as a normal user would and this is something webmasters picked up on…

Stacie from the Google News team posted in the Google News Help forum that Google News publishers now have a new way to submit their Google News Editors Pick feed to the Google News team. They can now submit it via the Google News Publisher Center……

Since Google gave us the manual action viewer within Webmaster Tools, a tool to see what manual penalties you have on your site…

You never ever want a disgruntled employee, customer or competitor or really anyone who should not have access to your Webmaster Tools account to gain access to your Webmaster Tools account…

With Panda 4.1 rolled out over the past month or so, more people have more Panda questions.

Typically…