Category: Search Engine Roundtable

This is probably obvious to most of you but I don’t think I covered a Google saying that 302 redirects to indeed pass PageRank…

Google’s John Mueller posted a FAQ on Google+ around questions asked about site migrations from HTTP to HTTPS. Truth is, I don’t see anything in there we didn’t cover already here when talking about HTTPS but it is a good refresher…

For iOS developers that have implemented the Google App Indexing API/SDK into their apps, they may be having a weird bug due to the Google SDK.

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Google’s Fetch As Google feature within the Google Search Console now forces you to use a captcha each and every time you try to submit the page to the index. You can try it yourself…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that the Fetch As Google feature within the Google Search Console is only meant to be used for the web index.

This came up in regards to figuring out ways to speed up indexing old image URLs with new images…
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Despite AMP being super fast and quick, the Google Search Console reports for AMP errors and analytics are delayed…

When Google updated their Webmaster Guidelines yesterday, one of the changed was changes was around valid HTML.

Before it read…

Google’s John Mueller said in a Google Hangout this morning at the 55 minute mark saying that Google will be stepping up their efforts around structured markup throughout the year because it benefits them in how they understand a web page…

Gary Illyes of Google posted on Twitter tip about reconsideration requests. In short, if your web site is in Hebrew and you get a manual action notice…

Google has begun sending webmasters and publishers notifications via the Google Search Console that they should begin looking to make AMP (accelerated mobile pages) for their news site. The notification says “implement accelerated mobile pages (AMP) f…

Patrick Sexton asked if he can publish the new changes and additions made to the Google Webmaster Guidelines update I mentioned this morning. So here is his take on that. But first, Patrick Sexton is the author of Varvy.com and the co-founder of getl…

In the Google Hangout from earlier this week, John Mueller filled us up with yes and nos to is this a ranking factor or not, hence all the stories here covering that hangout…

Many blog platforms let you automatically show “related posts” based on the category, tag or content of the blog post you just published. In many cases, this is all automated but in some, you can do them manually…