Category: Search Engine Roundtable

Two months ago Google launched the new disavow link tool, a tool Google says you really do not need, but relaunched it anyway in the new Google Search Console. Now, Google is sunsetting the old tool in just a few days from now.

Looks like the folks at Google are doing an email marketing push to Search Console properties that have not yet verified the property through the domain property method. Google is sending out different flavors of emails, some pitching you can see all …

It seems like Google is now showing multiple referring pages for some URLs in the URL Inspection Tool within Google Search Console. Amy @amy91485 noticed it and Glenn Gabe thinks it is new as well. I spotted up to four different referring pages in thi…

We previously covered John Mueller of Google say that “links are between indexed URLs, so if one side is gone, the link is ignored.” So if page A links to page B and one of those pages are noindexed, then it sounds like Google won’t count the link. But…

Last night Google began sending notifications via Google Search Console about HTTP/2 crawling. If Google has started to crawl your site over HTTP/2, Google will send you this notification. Just a heads up, this process began in a limited way in Septe…

A while back, John Mueller and Gary Illyes from Google reacted to a tweet around selling domain names based on their “SEO footprint.” Meaning, it has a lot of perceived SEO value (links and authority) based on third-party tools. And the domain name b…

Google has launched a brand new performance report just for Google News publishers within Google Search Console. Only Google News publishers should be able to see it, like only those who get Google Discover traffic can see the Discover performance rep…

If you are too focused on one specific area of your website, you can be missing out on other areas that need your attention. Being too laser focused, in any area, can cause you to lose sight of the larger picture and can end up hurting you in the long…

When Google announced the launch date of the Google Page Experience Update it also said that they may launch a label or indicator in the search results to convey to the searcher which pages do well with those metrics. We saw Google testing this icon a…

Google has updated the index coverage report in Google Search Console with more “more fine-grained” status and categories. The change will cause some of the errors or statuses to “relabeled with the new, more specific categories,” Google said.

We have seen John Mueller of Google respond to this question before, the question of why does my competitor rank above me when they are doing X, Y and Z wrong. Why does this site rank when they are spamming or have lower quality content, etc. The ans…

Here is a SEO new question I don’t think I’ve seen before. Someone asked if you need to link to all your pages from your home page. The answer is obviously no but not all new SEOs or site owners know this. John Mueller of Google said on Twitter “No, …