Category: Search Engine Roundtable

So some one asked John Mueller of Google if it is okay to use checkmark characters, i.e. â”, in your title tags. The question was would it make the title tag look more readable.

John responded that no…

Gary Illyes from Google said on Twitter that he doesn’t have rights or clearance to apply manual actions to web sites. That means…

Google loves a site with good navigation and good user experience…

Google’s John Mueller said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that Google may decide to “skip URLs that repeat the same path element many times…

Go to Google and search for [spinner] and Google will give you an interactive fidget spinner. Just when you thought the craze was over…

Dawn Anderson followed up on a topic around what is near duplicate content with Google’s Gary Illyes – asking if it is similar to content stitching and quilting. As Dawn suspected, Gary said no…

John Mueller of Google said the other day on a Google hangout on YouTube at the 25:16 mark that if you do plan on migrating from an m-dot (i.e. http://m.domain.com) to a responsive mobile friendly design, then it is best to do it before the mobile firs…

As you all know, Google launched Google for jobs at Google I/O a couple months ago after being caught testing job search features in search before that.

We also spotted a new schema for job postings that Google didn’t comment on.

Well, now…

So after Google suggested you should do your m-dot migration to responsive before the mobile first index, SEOs had some questions. They wanted more information on when this mobile-first index was launching because it is a big job to do this m-dot tran…

One webmaster asked Google’s John Mueller how does one know if Google is using their sitemap…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that the mobile first index won’t have a specific launch date. Instead…

Dawn Anderson, a really awesome SEO who thinks hard in most of what she does and says, posted an interesting chart…

Google has commented about the algorithm tracking tools before…

At SMX Advanced, Gary Illyes said that when you do a site move, so you get a brand new domain name and want to rebrand to that domain – it can take 3 months or so for Google to pick up on all the changes…

Here is an SEO question I’ve never seen before, which is rare. Someone asked on Twitter if Google won’t rank a web site as well in search if the business is based at a home residential address…