Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Google’s John Mueller made it sound like making site changes in the spirit of accessibility won’t result in a Google penalty or violation of Google’s Webmaster Guidelines. John said on Twitter “I don’t see a problem.”

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that mobile intrusive interstitial elements won’t generally impact indexing but it can have a ranking impact. This goes back to the old Google Intrusive Interstitials Mobile penalty.

Google’s John Mueller was asked on Twitter if the sitemap ping tool still works or not. John said that he is “not aware of any changes there, and the URL seems to be responding to get requests as usual.” In fact, the official documentation still has t…

Google’s John Mueller said in one of his #AskGooglebot short video answers that changing your WordPress theme can directly impact your rankings in Google Search. It obviously depends on what is changing with the website when you change the theme, but …

Google’s John Mueller said in a video hangout that Google Search does not specifically differentiate and treat differently category pages or filter pages or search pages or tag pages from other pages. John said it is not about the technical type of pag…

Google’s John Mueller said on Reddit that if you want to slow Google from crawling your site (or speed it up), it can take about a day from when you set the crawl rate setting in Google Search Console for it to kick in. The official documentation kind …

Google’s John Mueller said that if your page passes the live mobile usability test – that means you can ignore the Search Console notices of “new mobile usability issues detected for site.” So as long as you pass the live mobile friendly test, you are …

Google announced that beginning on September 15, 2021 Google will enforce correct unique product identifiers (UPIs) for your products uploaded to Google Merchant Center, even for free listings. Google said it is “expanding this enforcement and applying…

I found it super interesting to listen to a dialog between a new German startup and Google’s John Mueller. The conversation leads to John Mueller

We’ve covered the topic of Google passage ranking with tons of articles over the past several months. But in this past Google video hangout with John Mueller, John explained in a nice way what passage ranking is all about.

Google’s John Mueller explained that you really need to look at your site as a whole when determining if your site is quality or not. Do not simply look at the pages Google did not index or the pages Google does not show in the search results.

Google’s John Mueller said that he does not believe that the new content-visibility CSS that modern Chrome browsers support won’t impact Google Search. It may impact the speed of your pages, that can impact your core web vitals but outside of that, it…

Google’s John Mueller said that sometimes Google can treat a large lead generation form or call-to-action as an ad if the content on the page is not on the same topic as what is in the lead gen form or CTA. And when that happens, Google may say there …

Back in 2008 Google’s Susan Moskwa said that when it comes to showing content to search engines but not all users because of either age verification detection or other requirements, often JavaScript verification is the way to go. The same is true toda…

Google’s John Mueller said sometimes syndicating or republishing content makes sense but it never makes sense if you want to rank for the queries that those pieces of content aim to rank for. He said on Twitter “if your goal is that only your site rank…

Google’s John Mueller said recently on Twitter that when it comes to images, images being unique does not mean the image is higher quality. John said “IMO with images in particular, uniqueness isn’t equivalent to higher quality.”

John Mueller from Google posted a reminder or PSA on Twitter this morning saying “having a dedicated page for some seasonal sales events is a good idea for ecommerce sites.” This is advice from July, just a few months ago, that John is repeating today…

Google’s John Mueller said again that you cannot fix your overall website quality by making some technical changes. John said on Twitter “Website quality is not something you can fix with technical changes.”

Google’s John Mueller had to say that links that have UTM parameters, or tracking parameter, added on to the end of the URL, does not make them unnatural links. I often wonder where these myths come from, but he had to explain that those links aren’t b…

Google Ads has a boatload of policies, like you’d imagine, and some of those policies are around content exclusions like sensitive content, mature content and so on. These labels that are set in Google Ads do not influence the organic Google Search re…