Category: Search Engine Roundtable

An SEO asked Google if they can rank in Google for a competitor’s keyword. John Mueller responded on Twitter saying…

Over the past day or so, there have been tons of complaints on Twitter and the Google Webmaster Help forums, too many to link to, saying the ability to fetch as Google and then submit the URL to the index was not working…

Google has released their webspam report for 2016, sharing some interesting data points. Such as that Google sent out 9 million messages to site owners

This is probably way obvious to most of you but hey, first time I’ve seen it asked. Dawn was bugging Gary Illyes of Google on Twitter about 404s and Gary said Google has no way of seeing what a user clicks over to…

Have you ever noticed that sometimes, Google shows a slightly different URL for your content in their search results? So maybe they show your normal URL with tracking parameters at the end? Or maybe something else but similar…

A few months ago, I covered the topic of how long does it take to rank well in Google. In a Google video on how to hire an SEO, Google said “in most cases, SEOs need four months to a year to help your business first implement improvements and then see…

I want you to check your own sites and/or client sites and let me know if you saw a huge 50% or higher decline on March 7th…

Google is still working hard at switching over to their mobile first index and we are hopeful that it will launch in 2017, but those chances don’t look likely. When they do…