Category: Search Engine Roundtable

This is too cool, ask Google on mobile, desktop or voice, [who won] and you won’t get the basketball or football game but rather who won the elections…

If you go to the Google Search Console and go to the “Index Status” report under the Google Index section, you will see on November 6, 2016 a line that reads “update.” Normally that line means that Google made a change and the report might fluctuate……

Google seems to have significantly dropped the number of sitelinks that show up in the search results under the snippets from around 35% of all queries that show sitelinks to about 8.5% of all queries that show sitelinks. That is according to the RankR…

In the past 24 hours, both Google’s John Mueller and Gary Illyes answered questions around top level domains and rankings. One was about a ranking boost and the other was on a ranking demotion…

Google has told us for years that content hidden in tabs, accordions and so forth are not given full weight and may be ignored by their ranking algorithms. But that is to change…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that Google uses the canonical page for the search results snippet in Google – and often that is not the AMP page…

We’ve covered Google saying that they do not use domain registration length as a ranking factor before but it was back in 2009. We even discussed this topic a few times in the past and each time…

As most of you already know, Google announced Friday afternoon that they are going live with their test of their “mobile-first” index…

It is true, a site can lose their rich snippets over quality issues or never get the rich snippets in the first place. But what is not true is that if you do have rich snippets…

As we reported a few weeks ago, Google removed the Sitelinks demotion tool from the Google Search Console.

But did you know that the tool did not work for about 6-months prior to that…