Tag: Google

November Update About Links? Google Says Don’t Jump to Conclusions

Google’s John Mueller was asked about low quality links and the November 2019 update. During his answer, Mueller twice advised the publisher to not jump to conclusions about a connection between links and the November Update. A search marketer related to John Mueller that after the November update, when reviewing recipe bloggers hit by the […]

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Google’s John Mueller: Never Blindly Follow Big Sites’ SEO

Google’s John Mueller recently advised against blindly following what big sites do when it comes to SEO. This topic was addressed in a Reddit thread in which a person asks whether they should listen to Google’s advice or follow what big sites are doing. In particular, this question referred to canonical tags for pagination. The original poster […]

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The Top 5 Things Wrong in the WSJ ‘Expose’ of Google

Search engines are among the most important and most mysterious pieces of online infrastructure. Their role (complex as it is) is to bring some semblance of order to the otherwise chaotic, unimaginably large and constantly shifting corpus of information that is the web, so that when you or I are looking for something online, we […]

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Google Is Better at Indexing JavaScript But Delays Are Still An Issue

With Googlebot running on the most recent version of Chrome and JavaScript content being indexed faster than ever, it’s apparent that Google is getting better at indexing JavaScript. It feels like SEO professionals are finally reaching the happy ending to a long and complicated movie. Unfortunately, this movie has a twist: JavaScript indexing delays are […]

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Google Provides New Information on Latest Video Structured Data Features

Google has updated its video structured data help document with new information on some of the latest enhancements to video search results. The updated document has details on how to mark timestamps on YouTube videos, how to monitor performance in Search Console, and more screenshots to show the new structured data types in action. Here’s a rundown […]

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