Category: Search Engine Roundtable

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that the source of the link alone doesn’t make the link a bad link. It also depends on other factors. For example, John asked if the the destination owner placed the link on the source themselves or not.

Google has updated their search settings page sometime in the past 12 hours or so. With that change, Google removed the option to change the number of results displayed on the page and seems to have added a handwriting option.

Google’s John Mueller said that Google will convert PDF documents, as well as other documents, from their original form and into HTML in order to better index those documents.

Google has officially launched their structured data codelab, which allows you to walk through a step-by-step process to make your own structured data for your web site. Google’s codelab walks you through adding several types of structured data to a si…

Google’s John Mueller said in a video hangout that Google can technically process canonicals within JavaScript. This is assuming that what is shown in the JavaScript doesn’t conflict with other signals. John confirmed this on Twitter when Patrick St…

Remember we reported that Google dropped anonymous queries from the Search Analytics and Performance reports in Google Search Console on August 19th? Well, Google is now clarifying that the data was never displayed but the queries they hide were previ…

There is a thread at Reddit on the topic of someone building out a PBN, a public blog network. These are often used to manipulate Google’s search results through link schemes. Well, Google’s John Mueller commented on the thread saying “Sounds like an…

Google’s John Mueller said again that any type of bad content on your site, be it content you write yourself or content published by users – i.e. user generated content, can be used to judge your site. He said the content displayed is what Google uses…

Google’s John Mueller said it is great to go through old content and make sure it is still valid and accurate. But doing so doesn’t mean that you should update the date of the content to the date you reviewed it. If you want to inform the users who are…

Last week we reported that some were notice huge drops in their Google Search Console reports when using the query filter. Well, Google just posted on their data anomalies page that they have removed what they call “anonymous query.”