Category: Search Engine Roundtable

John Mueller of Google said on Twitter that if you have an exact match domain, aka EMD, it doesn’t give you a magic ranking bonus in Google. John said “there’s no magic EMD bonus…

John Mueller of Google had to say in a Google Webmaster Help thread that adding a YouTube video to your page will not make the page high quality by itself. Videos from YouTube on your pages won’t give you a ranking boost or show Google that the page i…

John Mueller of Google had to say in a Google Webmaster Help thread that adding a YouTube video to your page will not make the page high quality by itself. Videos from YouTube on your pages won’t give you a ranking boost or show Google that the page i…

I have heard time and time again from SEOs that they don’t like to push out too much new content on a web site all at once…

Back in November of last year, Gary Illyes from Google said content hidden in tabs is okay in the mobile-first world. Well…

It was a pretty hectic month in the Google SEO/search world. Despite Google claiming they would confirm major updates – we did have a major update on 6/25 which they call random chatter and won’t confirm. I did try to analyze the update but came up …

Since the early days of SEO, SEOs have been looking for anything to tweak on page to impact their rankings – including using the bold tag on your text. If you want to emphasis words on your page…

Yesterday, Google began sending out new AMP errors for video embeds done wrong with AMP. The errors read “Missing embedded video on AMP page for” and listsYesterday, Google began sending out new AMP errors for video embeds done wrong with AMP. The erro…

You and I know that Google Search Console is often a few days lagged but did you know that it can take 4-6 days for a new verified profile to start showing data in Google Search Console. Often I see that happen in less than three days but sometimes no…

An interesting question was asked in the last Google hangout with John Mueller at the 21:16 mark into the video. The question was around controlling or influencing Google to index the page of content that is embedding the iframe over the source of tha…

Rabin posted on Twitter “Google can and on many instances will rank a page for query even if the query is not present on that page. @methode #nobrainerfriday.” In which, Gary Illyes from Google responded to saying “true…