Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Google’s John Mueller posted on Google+ a heads up to those sites implementing hreflang for international support, that they must implement the rel=canonical properly or it will be as if none of the mark up is there…

Google is providing mobile optimization tips all this week on their Google+ channel and as expected, most of them are pretty basic stuff…

When Google Panda 4.1 touched down, it appeared that one of the sites negatively impacted by it, was this one.

On December 30th…

Stacie Chan from the Google News team posted in a Google News Help thread implying that the Google News ranking algorithm uses over 200 ranking factors for ranking…

The Google Webmaster team announced on Google+ that they will be offering advice, tips and optimization techniques around mobile design options.

Google said:

There are three common configurations of #mobilefriendly sites: Responsive web design, dynam…

Last week, we reported that John Mueller of Google said the site command is nothing to worry about, this is despite Google’s Matt Cutts telling us five years ago that the site command is ordered and ranked in some logic…

During the busiest holiday shopping season, Google was making ongoing updates to the Penguin algorithm. There is no disputing that, Google confirmed it.

But since the second week of December…

Often you’ll see the SEO forums light up a bit before an algorithm shift, where SEOs say, wow – GoogleBot activity on my web site is unusually high. This leads people to think an algorithm update may be coming soon. Sometimes they are right, but ofte…

Since Google gives a tiny ranking boost for HTTPS sites, many sites have begun switching over.

But if done incorrectly…

Shortly after Google released the Google Panda 4.1 update, I asked if this site was hit by the almighty Panda algorithm. It clearly looked like it was and I believe it was hit by Panda. Nothing has changed since. Not to this site, not to the conten…

Almost four years ago, Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, made a video on how Google ranks the site command results. In short he said, Google may use a form of PageRank to order them…

A Google Webmaster Help thread has one webmaster who says the fetch and render feature within Google Webmaster Tool’s Fetch as Google, shows an “Error” message without any reason.

After much back and forth in the forums…

Despite Google having a rich snippet spam form to report rich snippet spam to…

There is a wonderful thread that is pretty deep right now, going on at WebmasterWorld talking about the 2014 trends in search, and what people expect to see in search in 2015 – mostly on the organic side…

Google’s John Mueller in a Google Webmaster Help thread stated that testimonials are not reviews and thus should not contain the rich snippet markup for reviews…

The topic of creating a new site versus fixing your old site after being penalized is not new. Even Google told us that sometimes it makes sense to start new versus fixing an older site…

Often you see people claiming that since Google Webmaster Tools shows X, that web search much show the same thing. Or because there is a concern in Google Webmaster Tools…

Google’s John Mueller said in a Google+ hangout the other day that Google is working on some “fun stuff” around the search query reporting tool in Google Webmaster Tools.

John said this at 25 minutes and 55 seconds into the video…

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…