At the SEJ Summit Wednesday, Maile Ohye spoke quite a bit about AMP and the benefits of using it. But should webmasters consider an AMP only approach for their mobile users? During the Q&A, Ohye was asked whether webmasters should start making a desktop version and an AMP version, rather than using responsive design, and […]
Archives for April 14, 2016
Using Rel Canonical / Alternate? Ensure it is Above Head Close Tag
Maile Ohye from Google was at SEJ Summit in Santa Monica on Wednesday and she said she recommended the hreflang implementation using sitemaps over the rel alternate version. But she also made some interesting comments about using it as well as a mistake that is made by webmasters using it. Ohye says that they cut […]
Google Testing Green AdWords Ad Tag
Notice anything different in your search results today? Google is running another AdWords test, this time with a bright green “Ad” tag at the start of every AdWords ad, replacing the usual yellow Ads tag we are all familiar with. Alex Velinov was the first to spot the change, which he posted to #ppcchat on […]
Test: Google Will Rank Keywords in Image Title Attribute Tag
The topic of ‘Does Googlebot still see and use img=”title” for ranking of images in Google Images?”, recently came up in discussion in a post on SERoundtable, based on a Twitter conversation between Google’s John Mueller and myself. To add context, I had been auditing a project and came across the use of ‘onmouseover’ for […]
Using New JavaScript Frameworks? Google’s Advice for Crawling
At SEJ Summit on Wednesday, Maile Ohye from Google was asked about sites that are created using new JavaScript frameworks and progressive design elements… they can create fantastic looking websites, but when it comes from a search perspective, they can definitely cause crawling and ranking issues with not just Google but all search engines. Ohye […]
Test Driving Google’s Accessibility Apps & Tools for Android
Google Blog recently announced updates for several of its tools and apps for Android and accessibility. Roughly 1 billion people have some type of disability in the world. Development towards making products usable for everyone has long been a Google mission. It’s been one year since Google began expecting web pages to pass its mobile […]