Category: Search Engine Roundtable

Last week, I saw some chatter within the industry of people complaining that their Links to Your Site report in Google Search Console has dropped significantly. In the old days, if this metric shifted significantly up or down…

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Let me start by saying all of these points, in my opinion, is something we’ve covered here before but the interesting thing is that Google felt these seven items are things SEOs who give presentations have confused over th…

Yesterday, Google announced on Twitter that they added a new Google Search Console filter in the new beta performance report to filter out Web Light results…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that the order of the URLs in your XML Sitemap files does not matter. He did say that you probably should save the “start of the file for the most awesome URLs.” But he later added that “the order among them do…

The Cache-Control general-header has no impact on GoogleBot and how it crawls your web pages. The cache-control general-header “field is used to specify directives for caching mechanisms in both requests and responses,” says MDN docs…

Google’s John Mueller said in a webmaster hangout video at the 24:43 minute mark that Google does not use survey data, ratings, reviews, stars, etc in their organic ranking factors…

About a week ago, we told you about a bug with Google Search Console where the crawl stats were delayed a bit. Well, it is now 3 weeks, 21 days, since the crawl stats has been updated.

Update: 10 minutes after I posted this…