Category: Search Engine Roundtable

We know Google has an incredibly light weight ranking signal around going HTTPS with your site. Google has been pushing sites to go HTTPS as a matter of principle and “security…

A week or so ago, we asked if Google News will also be impacted by the mobile-friendly algorithm.

The answer is what I expected, that no, not yet.

Stacie Chan, who I have been pestering on this question for over a week…

Before you start reading this, the title is not to imply that Google News will rank HTTPS content better – they may or may not. This title means that Google News will display the HTTPS

Yesterday we asked how do we know if our pages on our web site will benefit from the mobile friendly algorithm. If the mobile usability reports show you have issues but the mobile testing tool give you the all clear, Google says you should be fine…
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A couple weeks ago, John Mueller of Google hinted subdomain support is coming to the Google Webmaster Tools Change of Address tool, well…

There has been a lot of confusion about when the mobile friendly algorithm will actually be noticeably in the mobile search results – by that I mean…

Another tidbit coming out of the Google+ hangout yesterday is that Google confirmed the mobile-friendly algorithm being released on April 21st is a yes or no / on or off factor. Either you are mobile friendly in Google’s eyes or you are not…
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A Google Webmaster Help thread has a webmaster who has a ccTLD, specifically a .com.au (Australian top level domain) and he is concerned that over the past four months or so, his US origin traffic from Google search has spiked…

We are all looking forward to the mobile friendly algorithm being released by Google on April 21st, and with that comes a lot of preparation. Some of the tools being used are Google’s mobile testing tool and the mobile usability reports within Google W…

Old legacy sites are honestly one of the hardest web sites to make mobile-friendly. New web sites that are custom built or running off a popular CMS are relatively easy to convert but old static web sites are a real pain…

Google has published a resource to document the seven most common mistakes they find when webmasters make their web sites mobile-friendly.

Google announced the list on Twitter saying “here’s a curated list of mobile mistakes we commonly see…

If you go to any of the Google Webmaster Blogs in most languages, including the English version, the German version and many more…