Category: Search Engine Roundtable

Google’s Stacie Chan announced in the Google News Help forums that they launched a new feature in the Google News Publisher center to test your URLs with the Troubleshooting Tool.

You can access it in the left menu after logging in…

The Google Japan Webmaster Blog announced that they have penalized a link network there for trying to manipulate Google search results rankings…

Glenn Gabe shared a screen shot of a featured snippet in Google on Twitter the other day. In short…

As we expected, Google confirmed last night that they now support using JSON-LD for some structured data markup including reviews and product rich snippets.

In the Google hangout from last week on Google+ at the 17:50 minute mark John Mueller of Google said that keywords in the URL is a “very small ranking factor.”

The question: “Keyword in the URL…

In the hangout from last week on Google+ at the 17:27 minute mark Google’s John Mueller said he doesn’t think reviews left on your local business has a direct impact on your web search organic rankings. He said “With regards to web search, as far as I…

Well, January was a super busy month probably because of the code freeze as Matt Cutts explained. We had tons of Google updates earlier this month but all were part of the core algorithm. Google told us Panda is part of the core ranking algorithm now b…

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.

Specifically…