Category: Search Engine Roundtable

We’ve covered the topic of negative SEO to exhaustion but hey, Google’s John Mueller had a nice line about it this morning.

Someone asked him what they should do now that their competitor started a negative SEO attack against them…

Brad Brewer posted on Twitter that the Google Structured Data Testing Tool now supports MTE, multi-typed entities.

This can be used for the hotel schema markup said Brad. Here is a screen shot of the tool showing the support for the MTE…

The Google quality raters are contractors who work to test and judge experiments in the Google search results. They do not influence the rankings but rather give Google’s engineers more data points to judge how well the algorithms are working…
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The Google mobile interstitial penalty began rolling out this week. It seems to still be rolling out as we speak but some sites got hit pretty hard.

Glenn Gabe posted some examples of pages loosing ten or more spots in their mobile rankings because …

Yesterday, we covered that Google’s John Mueller said not to use the link operator. This comes a year or so after Google said the link operator is not dead yet. Well…

For almost a year (maybe more), Moz and Google have not agreed on how Google handles 302 redirects. Well, after much back and forth, this week, Moz updated their SEO help docs to include the debate around 302…

Back in 2011, Duane Forrestor, when he was at Bing was interviewed about Bing Sitemaps and said:

Your Sitemaps need to be clean. We have a 1% allowance for dirt in a Sitemap. Examples of dirt are if we click on a URL and we see a redirect…

For over a year now, probably longer, the link operator, i.e. link:domain.com in Google, would not really provide the best results. Google’s Gary Illyes told us almost a year ago that the command is not gone but truth is…