Category: Search Engine Roundtable

Paul Bakaus, one of the more well-known faces behind Google’s AMP project, said a while back on Twitter that it is easier to tell if a page is slow versus telling if a page is fast. He said this after he said that the “whole area” of page speed “is t…

John Mueller of Google said in a webmaster video yesterday that Google’s search algorithms can and do share data from one algorithm to another. So if the Panda algorithm…

There is a lot more clarity from Google these days around crawl budget which is why I found it a bit surprising to see some SEOs ask if using a nofollow attribute on your links can hurt your crawl budget…

Google has quietly updated the quality raters guidelines (PDF) on May 11, 2017. No one seemed to notice but Glenn Gabe posted on Twitter that @ramesh_s_bisht noticed the update this morning…

Google’s John Mueller said this morning on Twitter that the Fetch and Render tool within the Google Search Console is the closest representation of what Google sees when they crawl your site. It is better for that purpose than the Google cache…
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Late last week, Google posted a warning against using articles for link building and many thought we were going to see mass link penalties shortly after. I even asked Gary Illyes from Google about that and he didn’t reply to me about it…

It is like every now and then a Googler has to say Google never had any Sandbox algorithm. They said it as recently in December. The Google Sandbox concept dates back to 2004. However, many SEOs felt there still was a Google Sandbox…

I love John Mueller’s one word answers. The Google representative was asked on Twitter if all ads above the fold are bad and John said “no.” Of course…

Yesterday, Google published a blog post named a reminder about links in large-scale article campaigns. Truth is, there is absolutely nothing new about what is written there…

There are many ways to control how Google crawls your web site but one of them is not the noindex tag. Google will still crawl your web site and web pages with the noindex tag on them. It needs to, in order to know what not to index. You can use robo…

SEOs for almost a decade have been using the term “over optimization” for one reason why a site might start to not do well in the Google search results. Some call it the over optimization penalty. Well…