Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

This should come to you as no surprise… Google has added a new Google Webmaster Tools report for showing webmasters mobile usability issues that they pick up…

In August, Google announced a new feature for Google News Publishers named Google News Publisher Center. Initially, it was only available for US English publishers…

In July, Google began showing flash warnings to mobile users in the US English search results. That was supposedly expanded globally earlier this month, when Google’s Pierre Far announced this on his personal Google+ page…

The other day, Jack Stonehouse asked me on Twitter why I was using a 307 redirect from the HTTP to HTTPS version of this site. The answer was, I was not. But why was he getting a 307 redirect and not a 301 redirect…

Remember we reported that during all the Penguin and Panda madness, Google said they will be pushing out a DMCA Algorithm update…

Google announced they made a change to their Webmaster Guidelines specifically telling webmasters, what they’ve been saying for years, but more strongly the past few months. Do not block us from crawling your CSS or JavaScript!
Google’s Pierre Far wrote, “Disallowing crawling of Javascript or CSS files in your siteâs robots.txt directly harms how well our algorithms render and index your content and can result in suboptimal rankings.”

Google launched a new version of the news box within the web search results the other week named In The News. The major difference here is that it sources not just approved Google News publishers but any site it finds relevant, which is really upsetti…

I know Penguin 3.0 is now rolling out but I want that to settle a bit before I poll you on Penguin.

I want to now poll you on Panda 4.1, which began rolling out on September 25th…

Yesterday in the hangout where John Mueller felt the Penguin 3.0 roll out was complete, but it wasn’t, John had a special guest from the Google News team, Stacie.

Stacie is the Google rep in the Google News forum…

As you may remember, Google is laying hints that mobile UX is coming as a ranking factor. That being the case, Googlers are now talking a lot about mobile UX (user experience) issues they see often…

Google announced that if you want to do content discovery right by Google, do not just use an XML sitemap file but also submit an RSS/Atom feeds.

Google’s Alkis Evlogimenos wrote, “for optimal crawling…

On Stephen Colbert last week, he ranted on TV about Google attacking him by showing incorrect information about his height in the Google knowledge graph box. This is a must watch:

Like the past several years, including last year…

Google has updated their change of address tool, the first major update since it launched back in 2009.
The new features make it easier for novices to go through the process of using the tool correctly.

It is now two years since Google launched their link disavow tool and the questions about it do not stop…

Google’s John Mueller admitted on Twitter that for user generated content (UGC) sites, spam is a hard issue and problem.

John wrote…

Here are more Google HTTPS tidbits from my SMX coverage last week…

Despite most not seeing many changes after migrating from HTTP to HTTPS for the Google HTTPS ranking boost, still webmasters want to do it.

If you are going to do it, you need to do it right…

As I reported at Search Engine Land, Google may add mobile UX as a ranking signal in the upcoming months.
Here is the statement Google sent me around my questions on mobile UX and ranking in Google…

The disavow tool is a very popular SEO/webmaster product from Google these days but don’t be mistaken, humans at Google are likely never going to look at your disavow file manually. Google says that generally they are processed completely automaticall…