Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

We know Google demotes non mobile friendly web sites in smartphone search results. But for some reason, there is a debate if Google gives a ranking boost to responsive design sites over other mobile formatted sites that deploy Google’s best practices….

Back in June, Google updated their site moving documentation drastically but webmasters questioned why Google specifically recommended using 302 redirects to communicate separate smartphone URLs from desktop URLs. Well that has changed…

In response to our story on Google confirming a Penguin refresh is needed to recover from Penguin, Google’s John Mueller added more context to his answer in the Google Webmaster Help thread.
In short, he made a few important points…

The last in the series of Google Reconsideration tips, all of stuff you all know…

For the readers here, this is probably very obvious, but @Marie_Haynes tells me, that it is not so obvious and it is “an issue many people argue about.” You cannot recover from a Penguin penalty (algorithm) if Google did not run the algorithm again.
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Google’s Matt Cutts, who is currently on a long vacation, has migrated his personal blog at mattcutts.com/blog from HTTP to HTTPS sometime over the past few days.

The interesting part is that he used a 302, a temporary, redirect…

A WebmasterWorld thread has some savvy webmasters and SEOs asking if Google has changed how they handle the domain clustering in the search results.

Domain clustering is when Google will determine if they want to show one or more search results on a s…

We all know that Google tells us to serve a 503 error code when your server and web site is having temporary issues. Like a period of time where the server is getting way too much traffic for it to handle…

More of the same old same old with tips from Google on reconsideration requests this week – but that was expected…

Like I said before, these Google Reconsideration posts on Google+ by Google offers information that is really not new. So the item I am covering today we noted back in October 2013.

Google is offering very very basic tips on reconsideration requests this week, calling it the week of GoogleRecon. Yesterday’s tip was pretty basic also, if you get slapped with a manual action…

Google’s site command, i.e. site:www.domain.com, is known by savvy webmasters and SEOs as not a great measurement of the total pages Google has indexed of your site…

Starting yesterday, Google announced on Google+ they will be offering tips on the Google+ Webmaster page tips around reconsideration requests, they are hashtagging this, #GoogleRecon…

A WebmasterWorld thread has a savvy webmaster/SEO noticing that GoogleBot is not bothering to crawl and indexed the pre-rendered web page, instead, it is running all the JavaScript and then crawling/indexing the final rendered page…

Last night, Google’s John Mueller was tasked to announce on his personal Google+ account that Google has dropped support for authorship, completely.

Yes, completely. They simply removed it from their search results interface and from behind the scene…

As you know, Google is giving a tiny ranking boost to HTTPS URLs.
But I was under the impression the HTTPS URLs must be really secure and that broken/invalid SSL certificates and content mismatch errors would invalidate the ranking boost. I was wrong!
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Google’s John Mueller was having fun this morning when he posted on Google+ “Time for HTTP 418. Every site should have one.”

The HTTP 418 server status code was an April Fools Joke back in 1998…

Yesterday morning, @gfiorelli1 notified me of that Google has “launched a massive amount of links manual penalization emails” specifically in Spain…

Exactly a week ago I migrated this site to HTTPS and truth is, it is almost impossible to check rankings and traffic for a site like this when making these changes…

Mobile sites are incredibly important these days but some SEOs and webmasters are concerned that it will cause duplicate content issues.

Going responsive or the same URL, for the most part, removes the duplicate content worries completely…