Category: Search Engine Roundtable

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that most sites on the internet do not use the parameter handling feature in Google Search Console.

John said “most sites, even large ones, never touch those settings.” He said the average site has no use for…

Pete Meyers from Moz was tweeting yesterday about how the featured snippets at the end of October have significantly changed. He said “it looks like a lot of the SERPs that lost Featured Snippets around the end of October gained general Knowledge Panel…

Let’s say you have a recipe site and you have recipes by vegetables. If you let people click from the tomatoes and then into a tomato soup recipe…

Google has updated the text they use to communicate to a searcher when the search result snippet has no information. It use to say “A description for this result is not available because of this site’s robots.txt â” learn more.”

Now it reads “No information is available for this page…

Just a heads up, if you are migrating your site from HTTP to HTTPS and you have parameter handling set up in Google Search Console, make sure that when you do migrate to HTTPS…

Imagine instead of seeing your web site address, i.e. domain.com listed in the Google search results for your brand name, instead you see an IP address listed. I am sure some of you have stumbled across this in the past…

In an effort to help with weed out fake news stories and make sure their news results, and core search results…

Google’s John Mueller said he is not aware of Google working on or having any plans on working on an API for the structured data testing tool.

He asked the webmaster why and what would he use the API for…

Sometimes I look at John Mueller’s responses on Twitter and think, no no that is too obvious. A recent one the Google Webmaster Trends Analyst posted on Twitter said “when a site is low quality, it doesn’t take much to out-rank it…

Google announced they will start taking punitive action against AMP pages that show teaser or partial content, with a link to see the full content on the main non-AMP page…

One thing that Gary Illyes of Google said at SMX East a few weeks ago that did not drive much attention, but a note I wrote down while on the stage with him was that the co-founder of Google, Larry Page…

Google has said time and time again that structured data, markup, schema, etc does not help you rank better in Google, all it does it help Google markup the search results with richer details for your snippets…