Category: Search Engine Roundtable

Before Google made a massive index change in 2009 or so named Caffeine, Google released a public sandbox for you to preview the changes in the search results based on this index change…

Most of you know that one of the most searched on words in Google is actually the name [google]. It happens way too often where someone will go to Google and then search for Google to bring up Google…

Back on March 16th it seems Google started an algorithmic search ranking update that continued on for a week or so…

Last month, we asked you all to fill out a poll around the Google Fred update. We covered this update in extreme detail dating to March 7th or so and you can find many more…

Having breadcrumbs on your site is good for usability and is also a good SEO check item to have on your internal pages. But what if your breadcrumb was defined based on user click behavior and not based on where the page might be situated on your web…

Paul Bakaus, one of the more well-known faces behind Google’s AMP project, said a while back on Twitter that it is easier to tell if a page is slow versus telling if a page is fast. He said this after he said that the “whole area” of page speed “is t…

John Mueller of Google said in a webmaster video yesterday that Google’s search algorithms can and do share data from one algorithm to another. So if the Panda algorithm…

There is a lot more clarity from Google these days around crawl budget which is why I found it a bit surprising to see some SEOs ask if using a nofollow attribute on your links can hurt your crawl budget…

Google has quietly updated the quality raters guidelines (PDF) on May 11, 2017. No one seemed to notice but Glenn Gabe posted on Twitter that @ramesh_s_bisht noticed the update this morning…

Google’s John Mueller said this morning on Twitter that the Fetch and Render tool within the Google Search Console is the closest representation of what Google sees when they crawl your site. It is better for that purpose than the Google cache…
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Late last week, Google posted a warning against using articles for link building and many thought we were going to see mass link penalties shortly after. I even asked Gary Illyes from Google about that and he didn’t reply to me about it…