Category: Search Engine Roundtable

Yesterday, I received numerous reports that the robots.txt tester tool in the Google Search Console was broken. Google indeed confirmed it and said they are working on a fix. Well, Google indeed fixed it…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that requesting Google to crawl your pages doesn’t negatively impact your rankings and if Google crawls your pages more often…

For the past several days, I’ve been watching this thread at WebmasterWorld with a great title named “Still Believe in 200 Rank Factors & Santa Claus…

Here is the monthly Google webmaster report, if you missed last month, you will want to catch up there. In short, this month was more about Penguin 4.0…

The page layout algorithms/penalty that penalizes sites with too many ads distracting users from the main content is supposedly an algorithm that is automated and doesn’t need to be manually run.

We discussed the concept of the real time algorithms wh…

There are some rumors in the industry that Google’s algorithms have a positive bias towards WordPress powered content management systems. The truth is…

A Google Webmaster Help thread has Google’s John Mueller recommending to one webmaster that it might be a good idea to verify your web site within Google Search Console more than just one way…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that it is safe to remove links from you disavow file “if you’ve cleaned up the links & they’ve been reprocessed.”

So first step, make sure the links no longer are there or you are blocking them in some way…

As you know, Google said the mobile index should be out within months. This mobile index will act as Google’s primary index, and Google will crawl the web from a desktop view as a secondary to the mobile view.

But Google is still hard at work at it……