Category: Search Engine Roundtable

Yesterday, we covered that Google’s John Mueller said not to use the link operator. This comes a year or so after Google said the link operator is not dead yet. Well…

For almost a year (maybe more), Moz and Google have not agreed on how Google handles 302 redirects. Well, after much back and forth, this week, Moz updated their SEO help docs to include the debate around 302…

Back in 2011, Duane Forrestor, when he was at Bing was interviewed about Bing Sitemaps and said:

Your Sitemaps need to be clean. We have a 1% allowance for dirt in a Sitemap. Examples of dirt are if we click on a URL and we see a redirect…

For over a year now, probably longer, the link operator, i.e. link:domain.com in Google, would not really provide the best results. Google’s Gary Illyes told us almost a year ago that the command is not gone but truth is…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that most of the 404 error codes that Google picks up on are not the webmasters fault. He said many people link weirdly or have broken code when they link…

Gary Illyes from Google said that he does enjoy and like answering SEO questions but he doesn’t like when it leads into an SEO argument.

Here is the tweet:

@dawnieando I like SEO questions…

Google launched Penguin 4.0 in late September, but it took a while to roll out and see recoveries.

Here is a cool screen shot from Aleyda Solis of a client recovery for her:

Oh Penguin you <3 pic.twitter…

Just like last year and this past Christmas and the years before – Google’s John Mueller spent some of his New Years holiday helping webmasters.

He did it both on New Years eve and New Years day…