Google: Wix Web Sites Work Fine For Search
Over the years, Wix has had a reputation of not doing too well with SEO and search rankings. Wix is a popular web site publishing platform and to have a bad reputation around SEO and search…
Google: SEO Is One Of The Primary Reasons Websites Are Targeted For Hacking
Google posted on their webmaster channel on Google+ that one of the primary reasons a web site is hacked these days is because of SEO. Google wrote…
New Year’s Day 2017 Google Doodle
Happy New Years everyone! Here is the Google Doodle, their special logo, for New Year’s Day 2017.
Google wrote on their doodle post:
Cheers to a new year…
Here Is Google’s New Years Eve Day Logo For 2016
Tomorrow, December 31st is New Years eve, but tomorrow is already here in places like New Zealand and they have the Google Logo up for New Years Eve already
How To Request A Special Crawl Rate From Google
A Google Webmaster Help thread has one webmaster that needs help controlling how GoogleBot crawls his sites. He said the controls in Google Search Console are not doing it.
John Mueller said that he can use the link on the bottom of this form in order…
Google 2017 SEO Advice: Make Sure You Optimize For Mobile Like You Do For Desktop
In Google’s last hangout of the year, I asked John Mueller of Google what advice does he want to give SEOs for 2017 – assuming those SEOs have done everything right in 2016.
Some May See A Drop In Google Link Counts In Search Console
Have you noticed a change in your link count within the Google Search Console Links To Your Site report…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Mobile First, Algorithm Update, 2017 SEO Advice & More
This week was expected to be slow because of the holiday week but hey…
Google Doodle For Charles Macintosh Chemist 250th Birthday
Today on Google’s home page is a special Google Doodle, Google Logo, for Charles Macintosh. Charles Macintosh was a chemist from Glasgow, United Kingdom who invented waterproof material. Hence the logo with a man standing in the rain in a raincoat……
Google South Africa Teases A Gift Leading To A Broken Link
If you go to Google’s South Africa home page at google.co.za and you see the gift box jumping under the search box, clicking on it won’t do anything. Google is asking you to “unwrap the best of Google for Android and iOS.” But if you click on that gi…
Google Algorithm Update During Holiday Break? Doubt It.
I am seeing some chatter over the past few days of traffic and algorithm shifts within Google search. The issue is…
New Google Recipe Search Results Mobile User Interface
Google Operating System blog spotted a new look and design for the recipe results on Google mobile searches. The new look has these much richer cards with more filters at the top.
Earlier this month…
The Google Mobile First Index Won’t Measure Page Speed
Remember the hangout that I covered yesterday where Google’s John Mueller said that really slow sites may not be labeled as mobile friendly…
Google Misinforming Webmasters That Their Page Is Not Mobile Friendly
In April, Google began showing a warning label in the search results to the owner of the web site if their pages were not mobile friendly…
Google: Keep The Default CMS Robots.txt Setting
Google’s John Mueller said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that it makes most sense to keep the default setting found within your content management system for your robots.txt access control…
Google: CDNs Are Safe & Shouldn’t Hurt Your Rankings
In the past, Google has taken extreme action by banning all sites on an specific host and even on a specific sub domain. Back in the day…
Google: Slow Pages Might Be Labeled As Not Mobile Friendly
In the hangout from yesterday with Google’s John Mueller he said something I never knew before, that pages that load really slowly may be considered NOT mobile friendly…
Google: Mobile First Index Is Not Yet Live
With all the Google shuffles recently in December, as I covered in the Google updates category, some SEOs and webmasters believe that Google has pushed out their mobile first index fully…
Google: Site Removal Tool Won’t Speed Up Site Migrations
It seems counterintuitive to me to use a site removal feature in the Google Search Console when migrating a site from domain A to domain B. But one SEO asked if it would help in a Google Webmaster Help thread. The answer is obviously no…
Google: We Have No Web Site Page Quota & Do Not Throttle Traffic
Yesterday I covered a thread at WebmasterWorld asking if Does Google Limit Traffic To Your Web Site…