Category: Search Engine Roundtable

This is a pretty obvious SEO question for most of you – but hey – Google’s John Mueller confirmed that using the meta noindex tag on your site will not help you save your crawl budget.

Why…

So we just covered that meta noindex doesn’t save crawl budget with Google and that question and answer was fairly obvious to most of you. But how about the canonical tag, does it save crawl budget…

The other day, I covered at Search Engine Land a Wired article named Google’s hand-fed AI now gives answers…

It has been a few years since we covered Google updating their site move recommendations document but they have. They basically now give different advice when moving a site based on if the site is a big/large site or small site…

Google has added the ability to submit a page to Google’s index directly from the new version of their mobile-friendly testing tool, which is at search.google.com/search-console/mobile-friendly…

Google has dropped the “featured phone” filter in the URL error report section within Google Search Console. You can access the URL error reports under Current Status > Crawl Errors > Site Errors > URL Errors when you login to the Google Search Console…

Yay, I just checked and the Google Search Console “update” line indicator found in many of the reports within Google Search Console can now be clicked on. In the past, you had to view the page source…

Google is now showing videos in the knowledge graph panel on mobile. Here is a picture from Sergey Alakov, who spots so many Google features…

After months at hinting at removing the content keywords report from the Google Search Console, Google has officially done it.

As we said in May, one of the reasons Google removed it was due to user confusion…

Google’s John Mueller actually gave a legit number, which he normally doesn’t do, around site speed. He said on Twitter that he’d recommend you keep your HTTP load speed less than 2 – 3 seconds. In fact…