Category: Search Engine Roundtable

This week, we had two different Googlers answer questions about link placement on a web page and how it differs having links in your main body content versus links in your footer, header, boilerplate content…

Google’s John Mueller answered a question in the Google Hangout at the 19 minute mark about is it better to go with short or long URLs. We know Google said don’t go over 2,000 characters in your URL and we know Google may try to shorten your URLs over…

You often see SEOs or hosting companies recommending you get your own IP address and keep your web sites separate across different IP blocks, this way you don’t fall in with a bad neighborhood. Truth is…

We know Google discovers and displays images very quickly in their search index, but once it is indexed, Google may take a really long time to discover the update.

For example…

Google will likely be expanding implementation support for rich snippets through JSON-LD. John Mueller confirmed this on Twitter after a webmaster said he saw websites using JSON-LD to power their product reviews rich snippets…

Matt Cutts of Google who is still on leave as far as we know, was on TWIG #336 and he spent about 15 minutes going through the core updates, Penguin…

For those interested in taking their web site, specifically news site, to the AMP (accelerated mobile page) environment – you may want to watch the latest Google Hangout where Emeric Studer from Google, the AMP Technology Manager…

After having a very unstable past couple weeks in terms of Google updates, this weekend was relatively calm. Last week we have a large core update and the week before massive fluctuations that were confirmed as core algorithm related as well…
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So we know Google News ranking is unaffected by the upcoming mobile friendly ranking algorithm. But we wanted to know if the In The News box that shows both news publishers and non-news publishers would be impacted…

Sometimes I find funny threads and I simply want to share them with you.

In a recent thread at the Google Webmaster Help forums, a webmaster dropped a keyword rich anchor text link and it caught the attention of John Mueller from Google…

Can you believe, the last official Google Panda refresh/update was Panda 4.1 on September 25, 2014? We’ve seen updates to it since, but those updates stopped around October 24, 2015, which is 5 months and 2 weeks or so ago.
I asked John Mueller of Goog…

Rahul asked Google’s John Mueller on Twitter if Google would display an old URL of a site in the Google search results even if it is redirected to a new URL and if so, could that be a duplicate content issue…

So a question many folks have been thinking about in regards to the April 21st mobile-friendly Google algorithm was what if a brand is not mobile-friendly and someone searches for them after April 21st on their mobile device…

There has recently been a lot of confusion around the Panda algorithm, specifically if it is running monthly, in real time, or still manual. The answer, at least today, is that not only is the data for Panda manually updated but also Penguin…
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