Having a website go offline is one of the top concerns for nearly every webmaster. Not only do you have the fact you are losing traffic to your site and causing your visitors to go to your competitors instead, there is also the very real issue of how it affects your Google rankings. The question […]
Use a 503 Status Code for SEO Reasons When Taking Website Offline
If you have to take down your website for any reason, such as to do backend maintenance that requires a site be taken offline or if you are re-doing an entire site after it has been hacked, it is important to use a 503 server status code for SEO reasons. Using a 503 server status […]
Google Adds Movie & TV Show Review Ratings to Knowledge Panel
A new feature has popped up in the Google knowledge panel that shows reviews given by the leading movie and television review sites, which displays on the right hand side of the search results in the Google knowledge panel. There are a couple different ways that Google displays them in the panel. Here is the […]
Yahoo Product Listing Ads With Added Filters in Search Results
Yahoo is testing a pretty unique version of their Yahoo Shopping Ads in their search results. While the ad unit features the usual thumbnails and products, it also allows you to click through options to “shop by brand” and “shop by price.” Here is another example with the option to “shop by category.” And this […]
Google Shows Hotels With Free Wi-Fi & Other Amenities in Search Results
Ever wish you could easily find which hotels offer free Wi-Fi, before you discover that you are having to pay $19.95 per day at the hotel? Well Google is well aware of this problem for business travelers and has added a brand new feature to the hotel box that shows up in the Google search […]
SSL Ranking Boost, Called TLS, By Page Not Sidewide
If you are looking for that tiny SSL search boost for your website, or are being proactive for when Google decides to ramp up their SSL search signal, John Mueller talked a little bit about it in today’s search hangout. One thing we learned is that the SSL ranking boost has an actual name, TLS, […]
Google: Affiliate Links Do Not Hurt a Website
There has been speculation over the years about whether or not affiliate links on a website can hurt a site or not when it comes to SEO and Google rankings. The question came up today in the Google Webmaster Hangout, and John Mueller addressed how Google views affiliate sites. First he said Google doesn’t have […]
Google Indexing More URLs From Websites
Have you notice an uptick in the number of URLs that Google is reporting as indexed in Google Search Console? Well, there is a good reason for that. Google is now indexing more URLs. Glenn Gabe was the first to notice the huge increase in URLs, which seemed to start on July 26th. One site […]
Google: Why the Panda 4.2 Roll Out is So Slow
There has been a lot of talk about how slow this latest Panda update is, with the roll out expected to last months. It has been so slow, in fact, that it isn’t even registering on the popular “algo weather” apps, such as Mozcast. There has also been a lot of speculation as to the […]
How to Disavow All Blogspot Links Including TLDs
Chances are if you have ever done a disavow file, you have come across multiple blogspot.com links, as well as links coming from the various international versions of Blogspot, each of which is hosted on its own country-specific TLD. And it can be a chore to disavow them all. Marie Haynes shared an incredibly useful […]