After taking a website for a quick pre-launch spin before its designers moved it off the development server a developer said, “SEO is not part of development.” Although I was performing accessibility compliance tests for my client, not SEO, I was stunned. I started building websites in 1995 and SEO was been part of that […]
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Google Wants to Allow Site Owners to Update Knowledge Panels
Good news if you have ever suffered from having incorrect information show up in a Google Knowledge Panel in the search results. Google wants to make it easier for site owners and individuals to update their knowledge panels and edit them for correct information, according to Gary Illyes during his State of Search keynote Monday. […]
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 […]
Google’s RankBrain: 9 Industry Experts Weigh In
Google’s new artificial intelligence algo, RankBrain is definitely interesting (all the details about RankBrain can be found here). We have reached out to 9 industry experts to get their reactions about RankBrain and what it means. Here is what they had to say. Glenn Gabe, G-Squared Interactive There’s been a lot of talk in the […]
Google Adds New Hacked Site Algo to Search Results
If your website is hacked, Google is making changes to how they show those sites in the Google search results. Previously, Google would add a “this site may be hacked” notation to warn searchers that the site is compromised and could harm their computers if they continue through to the website. But Google is now […]
Are you Over-SEOing Your Websites? Some Are, According to Google
We talk periodically about the concept of over-SEOing websites, but for the most part, people don’t really see the downside of it, so long as the over-optimizing doesn’t cross the line into black hat SEO techniques. But in yesterday’s Google hangout with Bruce Clay, Gary Illyes talks about over-SEOing, and specifically the type of over-SEOing […]
Google’s Search Quality Algos Site-Wide; Look at Entire Site Overall
In today’s Google Webmaster Office Hours, John Mueller spent some time talking about quality content and some of the triggers – such as empty listing pages – that are seen as a quality problem. While talking about quality content, he also said that Google’s quality algos work site-wide, looking at all the indexed content on […]
How Google Chooses Content for Knowledge Panel in Sidebar
Ever wonder how Google chooses which companies show a knowledge panel on the right hand side of the search results while others don’t? This question came up in the last Google Webmaster Hangout from someone who has done all the “right steps” in order to have a knowledge panel show up, but hasn’t had any […]
Why Active SEO Doesn’t Always Result in Ranking Changes
John Mueller was put in the hot seat a bit in the last Google Webmaster Hangout when he was asked about why it seems there are no changes happening in search results, despite active SEO being done by multiple sites in a vertical. It’s hard to say what you’re seeing there. In general, we are […]
New “Googlebot cannot access CSS and JS files” in Google Search Console
Google Search Console has begun sending out a brand new warning to webmasters who are blocking CSS and JavaScript on their websites. The new warning, also referred to as [WNC-658001] is send by both email and as an alert in Google Search Console for affected websites. Googlebot cannot access CSS and JS files on _____ […]