In today’s Google webmaster office hours with John Mueller, I asked about whether we would see any AMP related reporting within Search Analytics of Search Console. Right now, traffic isn’t split between mobile and AMP, making it hard for webmasters to do any deeper dive analysis on their AMP traffic as well as for keywords […]
Archives for May 6, 2016
Google Working on Merging www and non-www Properties in Search Console
If you are one of those struggling with the fact you have to have four different properties (or more!) for a single site in Google Search Console, Google is still working on a solution. In today’s webmaster office hours, I asked whether there were any updates on solving the issue of having multiple properties for […]
Google Prioritizes Links in Partial Sitemaps for Crawling
With so many sites autogenerating sitemaps, we don’t hear a lot about custom sitemaps or sitemaps where only a part of a site is on it. In yesterday’s keynote with Stone Temple, Gary Illyes from Google brought up an interesting aspect with sitemaps and how Google prioritizes crawling. If you use a sitemap that is […]
Google: Don’t Nofollow Your Own Internal Links
Are you nofollowing internal links on your site? If so, you might want to remove them unless you have a pretty good reason to be using it. Recently, nofollowing internal links gained traction as many webmasters who received a recent outbound link manual action decided to nofollow every link on their sites, including internal links […]