Category: Search Engine Roundtable

Daniel Waisberg, who recently moved to the Google search team, posted his first blog post under his new position. In the blog post he posted a reminder on how structured data can help richen up the search results. There is nothing new in the blog post…

In February, Google sent out Search Console notifications that you can and should add job opportunities that are available to remote workers after launching markup around that a year prior. Okay, so Google is reminding people to use the markup – okay….

I am going to do it, I am going to read between the lines here on a John Mueller tweet. In short, he said that you really cannot say that one specific ranking factor is the reason why a site might be doing well or poorly in search, even if that site f…

John Mueller from Google explained on Twitter the difference between the timestamp date in an XML Sitemaps lasmod date and the date on a web page. John said the sitemaps lastmod is when the page as a whole was last changed for crawling/indexing. The d…

Google’s John Mueller said it is best to disavow all the possible places the link may be pointing to, even if you redirect one URL to another and someone is linking to the original URL. But he said Google can follow and see “links between canonical UR…

It is now 16 days and counting since the Google Search Console Coverage report has been updated. Two-weeks later than the normal two-day delay and there is no end in sight. I’ve been seeing complaints pointed at Google’s John Mueller on Twitter with z…

Google’s Gary Illyes posted on Twitter this morning that he updated the crawl budget post from January 2017 to explicitly say that AJAX (i.e. XHR) calls were added to the list of things that will consume your site’s crawl budget.

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that the nofollow link attribute has been and still is working fairly well. He added hasn’t “seen many cases of sites causing themselves significant issues, or of pages not getting credit in quite some time.”
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Here we have Danny Sullivan, who now works at Google, defending Google’s organic, free search results. He said again, Google’s organic results are not influenced by ads, the Google Ad program and also Google Analytics has no influence on Google’s orga…