Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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…

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…