Google updated the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console on March 27, 2023. The update may have changed the number of URLs for Core Web Vitals reports. I have written. Google writes: “ A small marker will appear in the report notifying you of this update. It looks like this: Here’s more about […]
Whitespark people published There, a study of local ranking factors for 2023 was conducted, asking dozens of local SEO experts to rank what they believed were the most important ranking signals for local pack and organic local search rankings. I made a request. Of course, most SEOs know by now that these ranking studies are […]
Google Search Console’s URL inspection tool can now report whether a video’s embedded URL page uses the new indexifembedded robots tag. indexifembedded tells Google whether or not Google can index the content of a page when that page’s content is embedded in another page via an iframe or similar HTML tag, regardless of noindex rules. […]
Google’s John Mueller recently murmured True but ironic and some people seem to have taken it the wrong way. The problem is that any rel attribute, such as rel=cheese, is treated the same as rel=dofollow and Google ignores that attribute. The only attributes Google recognizes and does anything with are supported link attributes such as […]
Google’s John Mueller said that keyword stuffing alone does not render a page unusable. John added that Google is good at ignoring tactics such as keyword stuffing, which alone doesn’t cause him ranking problems in Google searches. this conversation came up Mastodon When someone points out a particular page that ranks high, even though they […]
Google’s John Mueller says you can safely ignore spam-like referral traffic and don’t worry about SEO.John said twitter“Ignore” when asked. Tom Goering told John, “Since the Link Spam update, I’ve been getting a ton of referral traffic from websites with the .xyz extension. I haven’t visited it, but I think it’s some kind of spam. […]
John Mueller from Google posted a very detailed answer to a question about hreflang implementation. redditThe answer is very detailed and I’m afraid I’ll get it wrong if I try to interject. To be honest, hreflang is not my hobby and I don’t have much experience in terms of technical SEO. But the response is […]
According to Google’s Gary Illyes, the IP address list in the Googlebot JSON file is updated within a few days after a new IP is added to the list of IPs crawled by Googlebot. “We had a few comments about whether the list was up to date. Within days, the answer was always yes,” Gary […]
Google’s John Mueller said that lesser-used or well-known languages published on the web are not considered low-quality content simply because they are not well known.He said Mastodon “Good content is good content” no matter what language it is written in. According to Daniel Mealo, “The best recommendation at this time is to avoid risking the […]
Google’s John Mueller said: twitter“Page size is not a ranking factor.” In other words, Google doesn’t have a specific signal that page sizes from X to Y increase or decrease rankings. John says, “(I think it’s either the HTML file or the total bytes loaded.) But it’s fine to see this. It can affect the […]
Some time ago, Google’s John Mueller accused agencies of using disavowal files, but now doubles down on that, adding: twitter “Some people do what they can charge whether it’s necessary or not,” it said in response to the disavow link service. Recently, Google’s Gary Illyes echoed his disavowal advice not to use it at PubCon. […]
Google’s John Mueller said: twitter It’s an SEO myth that you can hoard links by using the nofollow attribute on them. He said, “When you nofollow links, you don’t accumulate anything.” “It’s a common SEO myth,” he added. Some believe that using the nofollow link attribute allows you to control how Google passes link equity […]
SEO has a situation where they need to move a site from www.domain.com to new.domain.com and after a few months move back to www.domain.com. John Mueller of Google was asked if we should use 302 redirects, John said no, we use 301 redirects. Moving domains back and forth is an SEO nightmare, and SEOs don’t […]
Google is Site move related search documents this week. Most of the changes seem to have been mainly about simplifications, removal of some content, and clarifications regarding site moves. Gary Ellies said Mastodon“Just sorted it out. Over the years I’ve collected a lot of potentially unnecessary sentences. And a few from people with a more […]
Google’s John Mueller was asked if embedding reviews from sites like Facebook, Bing, and Google on his website would help with Google’s web ranking. John said no. He’s not searching the web. He also warned about third-party sites he doesn’t use structured data in his reviews. In short, using reviews collected by third-party websites will […]
Google’s John Mueller said that not all Googlebots use the same rendering engine, and indeed not all Googlebots need to render. So while the main Googlebot, the main desktop and mobile Google search crawler, does rendering and rendering JavaScript very well, not all Googlebots should. John said Mastodon When he was asked, “Does that mean […]
Gary Ellies Posted A new blog post on the Google Search Central site calls on everyone to stop using 403 and 404 server status codes to slow down Googlebot’s crawl rate. He said he has seen an increase in the number of sites doing this as well as his CDN and that it needs to […]
Google has published a new or significantly revised document on SEO linking best practices. Whereas the previous documentation was just how to make links crawlable, the new documentation provides tips on anchor text placement, how to write good anchor text, internal links within your content, and external links from other sites. Added. Last November, Google […]
Google’s Danny Sullivan repeated As for AI content, as long as the content is useful and written for people, Google is fine with it.If you’re using AI to create spam, it’s against Google’s guidelines. But Google also added a new section on the “who, how, why” of your content to the user-first content section. Most […]
Google still recommends not following footer credit links if you have control over the link. As such, sites designed, enhanced, or created with links of any kind should avoid following those links if possible. If you can’t do that, don’t worry, Google added. This question is 19:05 mark Google’s SEO office hours video from yesterday. […]
Google posted one of its Google SEO office hours. This was posted today and was recorded in January after news of Google’s layoffs. One of the questions was about whether or not we should be concerned about spam from porn sites and whether they can harm porn sites. Ranking in Google Search. In short, Google’s […]
A few weeks after I said Google would stop publishing SEO case studies, Google just published a new case study.this is on How Vimeo improved video SEO Specifically, for customers by using the indexifembedded rule in combination with noindex and adding structured data. Mind you, Mariachiara Marsella recently asked John Mueller if he could add […]
Google’s Gary Illyes said: LinkedIn I told you this morning that you need to “include the URLs you want to appear as canonicals in your sitemap”. This is not necessarily new advice. Google has said this many times, but for some reason Gary had reason to repeat this advice. Gary adds: “It’s normal to have […]
Last October, Google revamped the Google Webmaster Guidelines to Google Search Essentials. As part of that, we’ve consolidated our previous Thin Content and Affiliate Program pages throughout our documentation. Google’s girlfriend Lizzi Sassman explained a bit more about why this was done. Lizzie said twitter“The spam policy covers current guidance on thin affiliates (hence redirects).” […]
As of January 19, 2023, Google updated the video indexing report in Google Search Console. This allows for more accurate reporting of thumbnail indexing issues. As a result, Google said the “thumbnail not found” issue may be reassigned to a more specific issue type. Google does this data error page “Search Console can now more […]
Google has this SEO case study, Success story page I think they’ve updated it a few times since 2019. Recently, someone named Mariachiara Marsella asked John Mueller if he could add a new case study to Google. John Mueller replied Mastodon“I find it very difficult to do these things because searches are so dynamic.” What […]
Want a good core web vitals score included in Google Discover? The answer is no. At least Google’s John Mueller said, “That relationship is not documented anywhere.” John also said, “I would be surprised if CWV was a requirement for Discover.” he said Mastodon When he was asked, “A lot of people have asked me […]
As you know, Google can now crawl from locations outside the US. I know this is rare and used in certain situations. However, if you want to know if Google is crawling your site from outside the US, you should check your log files. You cannot see where Googlebot is crawling your site using the […]
Google’s John Mueller says removing internal duplicate content and fixing other technical issues won’t help your site recover from Google’s spam updates. According to John, these spam updates focus more on “real content” than when the site has technical issues or duplicate content. Below is that tweet. If your site is adversely affected by spam […]
Google’s John Mueller said that “writing your own text, adding infographics, and adding videos” doesn’t make the content “appropriate, accurate, and useful” by default. “It takes much more than just these three things to make something good, especially for medicine,” John said. The person asking the question said, “My site in medicine with exclusive content […]
In 2018, Google’s John Mueller said that Google doesn’t use cache-control headers when crawling. He then said that GoogleBot and how it crawls his webpages will not be affected. He said so again at the end of 2022 today, but added that “at best, it could be used to render embedded content.” written by john […]
i found this thread Mastodon Both John Mueller and Danny Sullivan of Google helped internet legend Tim Bray solve his SEO problems with Google Search. Yes, he had his two Googlers help him out. This is rare, but has happened before. Tim Bray is famous, well, internet famous. Wikipedia “Timothy William Bray (born June 21, […]
As you may know, LastPass has a fairly large security breach That’s pretty worrying. But other than password issues, what should SEOs consider about this security issue? I pointed out that it may be published and accessed. written by john twitter“The password is encrypted, but the URL is not.” That’s fine, just take care of […]
Google confirmed last week that it is working on a fix for SXG, signed exchanges, and search not working properly. Specifically, Google serves them in Google Search as regular HTML pages, not as signed exchanges. Google’s John Mueller said this isn’t causing problems for traffic from his Google searches to his SXG, and that Google […]
Last weekend, Christmas weekend seemed much calmer than it had spent some time in the world of Google search volatility. This is good because I really hope his two updates to the Google ranking algorithm will be finished by the end of the year. Last Thursday and Friday, we reported that the December 2022 useful […]
Google has updated the Learning Video Structured Data document to eliminate the need for the walkthrough video and clip text fields in question. It is now recommended. So if you use this structured data, you don’t need to use a text field, but Google recommends using a text field anyway. you can see HELP DOCUMENT […]
Google’s John Mueller said Google has no plans to release another core update in 2022. “For clarity, no core updates are planned for the rest of this year,” Jon said on Twitter. Below is John’s tweet. FWIW, just to be clear, there are no core updates for the rest of this year. Link spam and […]
Google is new Visual Elements of the Google Search Gallery This describes some of the popular search features in Google Search. No more guessing or making up names for some of the Google Search features. Google started with 22 search features, but Google plans to add more search features. They are classified as follows: Attributes: […]
Google Search Liaison Danny Sullivan said: Mastodon Content doesn’t have to be in one topic, one niche topic to rank well. You can write about various topics for the site. The key, Danny said, is that you should write content the way you want it, not for search engines, but for people. This was a […]
Google’s John Mueller says there is no score or threshold for helpful content updates on Google.He said Mastodon“There is no ‘HCS score’ or HCS threshold. [helpful content score] It goes from useless to useful for SEO. This shouldn’t surprise anyone as it’s a similar message Google has made for SEO Compliance Scores, EAT Scores, RankBrain […]
It’s time for content creators to update their successful content from 2022 to 2023. But from 2022 he said updating references to 2023 is not enough and Google will only do so if it makes significant updates to its content. This topic comes up every year. SEO with some kind of SEO script does that […]
Google’s John Mueller said that when the most important pages are bad, it’s a big deal, but when the less important pages are bad, it’s not so bad. So if your homepage is terrible, it’s really not good. But if archived orphaned pages aren’t good, it’s not that big of a deal for Google SEO […]
As Duy Nguyen of Google’s Search Quality team said in a Google Office Hours video, “Backlinks as a signal have had a far less significant impact than when Google Search first launched many years ago. No,” he said.Duy said 6:08 mark in that video. So this should come as no surprise to most people. We […]
Also, do you think your site has a duplicate content problem? Google states that “60% of the internet is duplicate.” Google’s Gary Illyes posted this slide at the recent Google Search Central Live in Singapore. This slide is from a tweet by Kenichi Suzuki who attended the event. About 60% of the Internet is duplicated. […]
Google’s Gary Illyes announced at Google Search Central Live in Singapore yesterday that Google, the Googlebot, can now crawl from outside the United States. He said systems to handle this are reportedly in operation now, but may not be used in all cases, or may not be used at sites at all. Update, this report […]
Google’s main event is the ability for Google Search to highlight sections of videos through a chapter-like interface. Google has added support for his SeekToAction markup for videos on the site. This allows you to use SeekToAction markup to tell the key moments (timestamps) that Google will show on your video in his 2021 Google […]
Google has published a new document named: A Guide to the Google Search Ranking SystemThis document outlines some of the “notable” ranking updates currently being performed in Google Search, as well as some of the past updates that are no longer used or have been incorporated into other algorithms. Also Danny Sullivan of Google Said […]
Dawn Anderson asked John Mueller of Google whether redirecting an irrelevant page would make the intended page (where it redirects to) less relevant and cause ranking issues for related queries. John said no, “I can’t think of a way to have a negative impact there,” he added. the conversation continued Mastodon Here’s what Dawn asked: […]
Google’s John Mueller was asked about the impact of the author name change on articles. In answering the question, John states that (1) use author annotations, (2) use new author names in rewritten content, and (3) do not randomly change author names. gave advice. This was posted on Mastodon The question here was “Will changing […]
Google has added a new Shopping section to the Google Search Console platform. Google has added a Shopping tab that includes an easy way to create a Merchant Center account, access product snippets, merchant listings, and the performance and debugging of your Shopping tab listings. Google Said This will be rolled out to eligible sites […]