Category: Search Engine Roundtable

Just in case you thought Google and Bing share the same index of the web – you’d be wrong. John Mueller stated the obvious on Twitter this morning. John said “we don’t share indexing with other search engines…

Google’s Gary Illyes said on Twitter this morning that you can prepare for the mobile-first index which likely isn’t launching until next year by looking for noindex directives and faulty redirects…

This is probably common sense to most of you but if you are using the Google Search Console API it is recommended that you refresh or redownload the previous day of data to make sure you have the most complete set of information…

Do you use the parameter handling feature within the Google Search Console interface…

It has been some time since we talked about Panda here and I am sure most of you are happy about that. But since Gary Illyes from Google brought it up yesterday on Twitter…

So some one asked John Mueller of Google if it is okay to use checkmark characters, i.e. â”, in your title tags. The question was would it make the title tag look more readable.

John responded that no…

Gary Illyes from Google said on Twitter that he doesn’t have rights or clearance to apply manual actions to web sites. That means…

Google loves a site with good navigation and good user experience…

Google’s John Mueller said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that Google may decide to “skip URLs that repeat the same path element many times…

Go to Google and search for [spinner] and Google will give you an interactive fidget spinner. Just when you thought the craze was over…

Dawn Anderson followed up on a topic around what is near duplicate content with Google’s Gary Illyes – asking if it is similar to content stitching and quilting. As Dawn suspected, Gary said no…