Category: Search Engine Roundtable

Google has added two new features to the change of address tool in Google Search Console. The one helps you validate your move with redirect validation. The other feature reminds you, or someone else with Search Console access, that the site is moving…

John Mueller of Google was asked if there is a difference between a Google broad core update and a Google core update. John responded “I imagine that’s generally the same.” I suspect they are.

I don’t think I’ve seen this before in the Google search results. A snippet that shows “uploaded by” next to an organic search result listing. This was shared by Ryan Clutter on Twitter and it is hard to know exactly why this is shown. It seems like …

John Mueller from Google posted a short, less than two minute video, for the #AskGoogleWebmasters series on YouTube around dealing with webspam manual actions from Google. In short he said if you are not sure what to do with a webspam manual action, th…

Google wants the AMP version of your page to be equivalent to the main mobile version of that page. So if your page has a comments area, Google would like to see those comments in the AMP version as well. But technically, John Mueller said, Google wo…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that text within an image’s alt attribute is generally seen as text “as a part of the page where the image is embedded.” If that text is within an H1 tag, then Google will also see it as part of the H1.

Google’s John Mueller added some clarity around how Google processes links within a disavow file. He said on Twitter that the disavow file is “processed immediately and taken into account as the URLs are recrawled.”

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that it doesn’t matter what slows down your pages, if your pages are slow, they are slow. So if it is a Google product, like Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, AdSense, Ad Manager or something else Google offers…