Category: Search Engine Roundtable

Google announced that they’ve upgraded the events based knowledge graph to show official ticket links, comedian events…

Now, you can markup your web sites so that if your brand comes up in the search results, it can potentially show social profile links to your social channels. Google supports showing social profile links to Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, YouTu…

Google has many updates to their Structured Data Testing Tool since launching in 2009, including renaming it in 2012 but yesterdays update may be one of the larger updates.

Sometimes you read these threads in the Google help forums and just want to give up and here is one case. A Google News Help thread has a publisher at boxingdispatch.com that is complaining they received an email from Google News about being removed a…

This morning, Google posted on Google+ a request for webmasters to submit their ideas and suggestions on how to improve Google Web Search and Google Webmaster Tools.
Google said that

Yesterday, Google sent out their first Google News Publisher newsletter and it has some nice information, but one big tidbit on the algorithm side that is very important for Google News publishers…

As you know, Google will demote mobile sites that have issues displaying on mobile devices. Google may expand that even more so to not just display issues but mobile usability issues as well.
Glenn Gabe shared…

Google’s John Mueller said in a Google+ hangout yesterday that the Google Webmaster Tools team is working on updating both the layouts and the text of the messages sent to webmasters through Google Webmaster Tools…

Google’s John Mueller announced on Google+ that the Google PageSpeed Insights API, which has been around since October 2013, has received a bit of an update yesterday…

SEOs have been using CSS positioning for years and years as a way to get the more important content positioned in the source code above the more boiler plate content, such as headers, navigation and so on.

But now with the way Google fully renders you…

I spend a lot of time here documenting what Google spokespeople are saying in terms of SEO and webmaster advice. Often, I don’t spend the time going into all of the alternatives around the statement…

Google’s Webmaster team on Google+ posted a poll asking which configuration are you using for your mobile friendly web site? Is it responsive, dynamic serving, separate desktop and mobile URLs or are you not mobile friendly yet…