Google Calls Algorithm Monitoring Tools “Blackhat Scrapers”
Back in the good old days, I use to simply use the chatter in the SEO discussion forums to communicate with you all if I feel there was a major or minor Google Algorithm update…
Google: We Care About URL & Last Modification Date
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter this morning that Google doesn’t really care much about the priority field in the XML Sitemap…
Google: We Count The Same URL In Different Sitemaps Separately
John Mueller of Google said on Twitter that Google will count the same URL in different sitemap files separately…
Google: Directing Users & GoogleBot To Fasters Servers Is Not Cloaking
A webmaster asked John Mueller of Google if it is cloaking or against Google’s guidelines to direct GoogleBot to the fastest server available to render the content on the web site…
Google: Links From Added URL Parameters, Check The Canonical
Sometimes I get to step back and explain a basic SEO topic…
Google: URL Structure Not So Important For SEO
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that URL structure is “not so much” important, rating it a 1 out of 7 – whatever that means. He said the bigger concern is changing URLs can take Google time to pick up on and pass signals from. So stick with yo…
Google: Three Reasons Your Rich Snippets Aren’t Showing In Search
An SEO asked Google’s John Mueller why his rich cards (rich snippets) aren’t showing up in search. John responded with three possible reasons over Twitter…
Google Search Console Structured Data Report Gets More Details
Aleyda Solis posted on Twitter that the Google Search Console structured data report now has more detail. She pointed out that in the product report, it has new fields for name, price, brand…
Google On How To Block Your Staging Server
Google’s John Mueller posted on Google+ an overview of how to remove your staging server from Google and then the best way to block it going forward. Some call it a staging server, some a development server, some a testing server or some have all of t…
Google’s India Independence Day Doodle: Vote On Your Favorite Part
Today is India’s Independence Day and Google has a very nice logo on Google.in for it…
Google Adds AMP Testing Tool Box To Search Results
Yesterday we reported that Google added a mobile page testing tool to search, right in the search results page. In April…
Google Voice Recognition Now Supports 119 Languages
Google announced they now have added 30 new languages to their voice recognition capability, bringing it to a total of 119 language varieties, in Gboard on Android, Voice Search and more. And even more…
Google Adds Mobile Friendly Test In The Search Results
You can now search for [mobile friendly] in Google and Google will give you a box at the top of the page letting you test any URL to see if it is mobile friendly. Here is a screen shot:
This is the same as the mobile friendly testing tool but direc…
Google Hotel Search Prominently Adds Number Of Hotel Results
Sergey Alakov shared a screen shot on Twitter of Google showing the number of the hotel results in your search in a very prominent way…
Live: Google Question & Answer Feature In Local Results
About a month ago, we reported Google was testing question and answer sections in the local results. I emailed Google about this three times, Google was radio silent about it…
Test: Fetch As Google Stops At 10,000 Pixels
The other day, Google’s John Mueller was asked by an SEO named Torben what the cut off was for the fetch as Google feature. John Mueller responded on Twitter that he knows there is a cut off but was not sure what the number was. So Torben tested it a…
Details On The Google AdSense/Ad Buyer Exploit
As many of you know, Google confirmed an AdSense exploit where ad buyers were able to manipulate the ad platform to result in many AdSense publishers noticing a huge…
Google Logo For Hip Hop History
Today on the Google home page is a pretty cool hip hop Doodle, special Google logo. It is an interactive Google Doodle that lets you use turntables where you can mix samples of tracks from legends in the hip hop industry…
GoogleBot Doesn’t Pass A Referrer; Generally Directly Hits URLs
Google’s John Mueller confirmed on Twitter that GoogleBot, Google’s web crawler…
How Google Handles Canonical Pages With Noindex On The Page
In a hangout from this morning, Google’s John Mueller was asked how Google handles a page that you applied a canonical to but also has a noindex on it. Does that page pass…