Category: Search Engine Roundtable

In April, Google began showing a warning label in the search results to the owner of the web site if their pages were not mobile friendly…

Google’s John Mueller said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that it makes most sense to keep the default setting found within your content management system for your robots.txt access control…

In the past, Google has taken extreme action by banning all sites on an specific host and even on a specific sub domain. Back in the day…

In the hangout from yesterday with Google’s John Mueller he said something I never knew before, that pages that load really slowly may be considered NOT mobile friendly…

With all the Google shuffles recently in December, as I covered in the Google updates category, some SEOs and webmasters believe that Google has pushed out their mobile first index fully…

It seems counterintuitive to me to use a site removal feature in the Google Search Console when migrating a site from domain A to domain B. But one SEO asked if it would help in a Google Webmaster Help thread. The answer is obviously no…

Yesterday I covered a thread at WebmasterWorld asking if Does Google Limit Traffic To Your Web Site…

As you all know, I do try to join as many Google webmaster hangouts as possible live. But I always make an effort to listen to them after the fact as well…

Google is now sending mass messages via the Google Search Console about making sure your login box is served over HTTPS. Many sites have logins on HTTP, non secure pages…

Some people give charity, some people go to a soup kitchen, some people spend more time with family as a Christmas day tradition. Well…

The topic of Google throttling traffic to a web site has been around since 2008 or earlier…

If you follow Google like I do, you’d notice that it is like a ghost town there. Almost everyone is off, on vacation, spending time with family and friends. If you send an email to a Googler, it is almost guaranteed you’d get a vacation response……

I honestly never heard of this but Google’s John Mueller told someone that they do not need to worry that Google will consider new URLs that are close to the same URL name as an old URL to transfer signals from the old URL to the new URL…

In May 2016, Gary Illyes from Google said he is angry with sites that don’t link out – he called it stupid. But John Mueller later explained that there is no penalty…

It seems Google is showing more featured snippets for more queries than they have even done before. Both RankRanger and Mozcast show a significant uptick in the percentage of queries that Google is showing these featured snippets…