Many SEOs tend to shy away from site templates, either free or paid ones, due to the many SEO implications. But can using a premade template hurt a site based on that alone? The question came up in today’s Google Webmaster Office Hours. Is unique design a real factor in ranking? Using already built templates […]
Archives for November 6, 2015
User Engagement as a Google Search Ranking Factor
The possibility of user engagement as a ranking factor is something that has been getting some traction amongst SEOs lately. Despite both John Mueller and Gary Ullyes saying things like CTR and Google Analytics don’t have any impact on rankings, other than to test updated ranking signals, many people still believe otherwise. The question came […]
Googlebot to Crawl HTTP/2 by End of Year or Early Next Year
Good news if you have been waiting for Googlebot to support HTTP/2. According to John Mueller, they are working on bringing the support soon. In today’s Google Webmaster Office Hours, Mueller was asked whether there were crawling or indexing limitations for sites moving from HTTP/1 to HTTP/2 So at the moment, Googlebot doesn’t support HTTP/2-only […]
Can Webpages Crawled Infrequently Still Rank Well?
If you have a website that doesn’t change or update content frequently, you may have noticed that Google tends to not crawl those pages as frequently as it does other sites. But does this lower crawl frequency translate into lower rankings? The question came up in today’s Google Webmaster Hangout. Is it true that if […]