Category: Search Engine Roundtable

It was not a slow month when it comes to Google webmaster topics. We saw an unconfirmed Google algorithm update that hit spammers for the most part. We saw Google confirm a Japanese algorithm update but we had a couple smaller updates as well…
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Google has quietly added a “preview” button to the Google Structured Data Testing Tool for some types of structured data – not all. For example, if you bring up the results for a video post here, such as this, Google will show two types, a NewsArticle…

Google’s John Mueller and Gary Illyes, spokespeople for Google, have expressed their extreme dislike and “hate” towards websites that use “read more” buttons to expand the content to show more. John said “why would a site want to hide their content……

A site named Just Miniatures in the UK seemed to have been hit by the Google mobile interstitial penalty, when in fact, it probably should not have been. This is in addition to many sites that should have been hit…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that the “hierarchy in URL elements isn’t that important for Google search.” This was in response to a question around how deep a URL is within your folder structure…

On the heels of the link operator being killed off by Google, some SEOs are worried that Google will drop the site operator/command. The site operator lets you quickly do a site only search…

Gary Illyes from Google wants to hear feedback on success, failure or other issues during your HTTPS migration and how Google handled picking up and reindexing those HTTPS URLs and any traffic changes…