Category: Search Engine Roundtable

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter yesterday that some store locator implementations on mobile may be be considered an intrusive mobile interstitial and thus be at risk for the mobile interstitial Google penalty – if there is any risk…

Google has said time and time again that the search team, the organic side, does not talk to the paid side, the AdWords teams. There is a pretty big divide, intentionally, between paid and organic. This is also true with the AdSense team…

Back, just about six years ago, Google told us Facebook likes don’t influence Google rankings and that statement remains true in 2017, just like it did in 2011. Gary Illyes from Google said the same thing yesterday on Twitter…

May 2016, Google first introduced the new rich cards and yesterday, Google quietly updated the original announcement saying Rich Cards are now available globally…

So last year, Google gave us a way to combine data into sets within Google Search Console. So if you have verified a www, non-www, https, non-https, apps, etc – you can combine them all into a single set and get aggregate data for all of them in one Go…

I spotted a thread at the Google Webmaster Help forums that made me laugh, and since you guys are mostly SEOs…

Google’s John Mueller posted a reply on Twitter saying that if there are no links to a specific URL, then Google won’t find the URL. Of course, the exception here is the fetch and submit feature and Sitemap feature…

With Google Home, Google Assistant and more people using voice search on Google, webmasters want to know what voice search queries Google is using to show their site, potentially as a featured snippet or more…

Google has quietly added new rich results markup for podcasts in the developer center. Aaron Bradley seemed to have first spotted this and posted it on Google+ saying that “a new data type has appeared in the Google reference library of structured dat…

Google has lost some of your data in the Google Search Analytics report within Google Search Console. Specifically around image search clicks and impressions…

Gary Illyes from Google said on Friday, right after officially confirming the Fred update that Google has never denied an update that “actually happened.” At least, he said that Google has never done that, on purpose…

Normally, Google isn’t so public about their shaming of those who go against their webmaster guidelines. But last week…

Google’s John Mueller was asked about how Google indexes and ranks images that are in 360° format…