Category: Search Engine Roundtable

Matt Tut posted a poll on Twitter asking where do SEOs go for help when they run into an SEO that they cannot solve themselves. The poll has over 850 responses and the responses probably have a bias towards Twitter (since it is a Twitter poll) but it i…

In 2018, Google’s Danny Sullivan said Google does not recognize sentiment in Google Search. He was asked again in 2021 and Danny Sullivan, no, Google still does not consider it for uses in Search.

John Mueller of Google confirmed what most of you SEOs already know, that it can take Google “several months” to understand quality changes that are made to a site. John Mueller said on Twitter “making significant quality changes across a site takes time to be picked up & reflected in search.” “These things often take several months to be reprocessed & reevaluated,” he said.

Google has released several updates to both the robots.txt documentation and the structured data documentation last Friday. Here is a list of those changes from Google’s site.

John Mueller from Google said on Twitter that Google does not have the concept of page authority. “We don’t have a notion of page authority,” John Mueller said. How does this differ from maybe site quality, well, that is a good question.

Looks like Google made a change to how many FAQ rich results can show in the Google Search results per search result snippet. Previously, Google would show many FAQ results below a snippet, now Google has reduced it to a maximum of two. I am not sure …