Category: Search Engine Roundtable

Google’s John Mueller was asked about his feelings on the Google March 2023 broad core update and if he can honestly not say that the “update messed the SERP a bit up.” John responded saying, “I’ve seen a ranking update landing as “oops, everything is…

Every year Google releases its web spam report showing how much better the search company got at fighting search spam. This year is no different but here, Google is showcasing how successful SpamBrain was at making big strides in fighting search spam.

We know the Google Indexing API should be used for just job postings and live-streaming content. If you use it for other content, it just won’t do what you want. A Black Hat World thread seems to confirm that it doesn’t work for other content types.

Google’s John Mueller was asked if it makes sense to publish 8,000 new pages at once or slowly publish them over time. Like, would publishing them all at once cause some of SEO issue with Google Search.

Google’s John Mueller does not want you to make generalizations about links. Links from news sites or sites from Germany, or sites from really good-looking SEOs (bad joke?) are not necessarily worth more or less than links from other types of sites.

Google’s John Mueller said when it comes to sites with pagination and large site’s faceted navigation, Google will learn how to crawl it. He said on Twitter, “we do try to “learn” useful URL patterns for sites.”