Category: Search Engine Roundtable

The question is, can SEOs give their clients timelines for when they can expect improvements on their SEO or ranking issues in Google Search? The answer is, it depends on the issue and how specific the timeline is.

Google’s John Mueller said that Google Search tries “to find the primary language per page.” So when you mix languages, that might cause issues with Google doing that. He added on Twitter “but what you put on different pages is totally up to you.”
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Google’s John Mueller said that “you’ll start to see positive effects once you get out of the “poor” area in core web vitals.” This means that you may see a positive impact around the Google page experience update once your pages are out of the red ar…

A few years ago we reported that Google may treat a 308 redirects as a 301 redirect. Then shortly later we said you can’t rely on that because it was not documented. Three years later it was added to the official Google documents that Google treats 3…

I found a question and answer dialog between an SEO and John Mueller of Google on last Friday’s hangout interesting. The answer to the question for most of you is obvious, exchanging a link for a link is against Google’s guidelines but it seems some m…

John Mueller said in this morning’s video that Google has changed how it handles soft 404 detection saying it looks at desktop vs mobile differently but in Search Console only reports what it shows in mobile and not on desktop. So if Google sees your m…

Google said that starting in August 2021 it will change its insufficient contact information policy in the Google Merchant Center guidelines from having two forms of contact information, to only one form of contact information on your site.

Google has a disavow tool, a tool that reluctantly launched in 2012 that lets you tell Google which links you don’t want them to count that are pointing to your site. It turns out, there are a number of SEOs that end up disavowing their disavow tool -…

Darcy Burk asked John Mueller of Google if you still get the HTTPS ranking boost if you have HTTPS, but all your other page experience signals are poor. So your core web vitals are horrid but your URLs are over HTTPS, do you lose out on the HTTPS rank…

Google’s John Mueller told one publisher that “it’s possible that there’s just no SEO solution” to your Google ranking issues. He said sometimes it is not a technical or link building issue, sometimes it has to do with your content and your product and…