Category: Search Engine Roundtable

Sometimes I wonder where some of these rumors come from. Someone actually asked Google’s John Mueller on Twitter if you can get a Google linking penalty for linking your web site to Wikipedia. I am not joking…

Gary Illyes from Google posted on Twitter one of his did you know pieces saying did you know that “quality comments can be a signal of a healthy website?” Here is the tweet:

DYK quality comments can be a signal of a healthy website…

Almost a year ago today, Google’s John Mueller told SEOs again that keywords in the URL is a small ranking factor in Google’s search ranking algorithm. This is not new…

As many of you know, I want Google to do a no date penalty but I doubt that will happen. Although, Google is asking if they should do a penalty for sites that have auto-play video advertisements…

Gary Illyes said back in the day that it makes him angry when publishers don’t link out to their sources. We also know that there is no penalty for not linking out. But now…

The topic of does Google’s ranking signals and algorithms different based on the query or searcher has been around for a while. I believe most algorithms are not query dependent but there are some signals that are specific to the type of query and the…

Many SEOs are obsessed with pagespeed but as you know, mobile rankings don’t even look at mobile page speed these days and they won’t when the mobile first index comes out, at least not to start…

So we have the fetch and render tool in Google Search Console but it seems like Google is building a new tool to show webmasters how Google is rendering a page on their crawl…

When Google first introduced AMP, accelerated mobile pages, they said it might be a ranking signal but they ended up not using AMP as a ranking signal and have continued to not use it…

Britney Muller from Moz, no relation to John Mueller from Google, posted on Twitter several weeks ago that Moz lost a featured snippet in Google because the page had a typo, a spelling mistake. She said when she fixed the typo…

About six-weeks ago, Google’s John Mueller announced in the Google Webmaster Help forums that they have moved support for Google Firebase app indexing…