John Mueller recently posted a Q&A for moving a site from HTTP to HTTPS. He has answered several questions readers had, and one of them was noteworthy for those who are making the switch to a secure site. When Google recognizes that a site is switching to HTTPS, Google will sometimes recrawl the site faster […]
Search Results for: search console
Google Sending Confirmation Notices for Spam Reports
Google seems to have made a small change for those who submit spam reports via Google Search Console… a new confirmation email WNC-652000 for “Spam report successfully submitted.” Here is the new notice they send out for a submitted spam report. Spam report successfully submitted Google has received a spam report for site http://www.example.com. We […]
Google’s Webmaster Guidelines: Breakdown of All Changes Made
As part of Google’s redesign of Google Search Console, they have released a brand new version of their Webmaster Guidelines. Here is a line-by-line of every change, addition and removal from the previous version. So let’s get started! Introduction The first change is the ommission of a single phrase within their opening paragraph. Previously, it […]
The Google “Penalty” That is Actually From a Hacked Site
Recently, there has been an increase in the number of webmasters who are reporting that they have lost all Google referral traffic. Normally, when one sees organic referrals from Google drop to zero, the natural assumption is that the site has a site-wide manual action applied. Yet when looking in Google Search Console, there is […]
Understanding Google Panda: Definitive Algo Guide for SEOs
Note: We have many brand new quotes about Panda from Google attributed to a “Google Spokesperson.” These are all quotes given directly to the author and The SEM Post by Google. All other Google quotes are cited to their sources. Google Panda is one of Google’s ranking filters that seeks to downrank pages that are […]
Yelp Using App Interstitial But Keeps Mobile-Friendly Tag & Ranking Boost
When Google decided to make app interstitials a reason for losing a page’s mobile friendly tag in the search results along with the ranking boost, Yelp’s CEO Jeremy Stoppelman was one of the very vocal critics against it. But they eventually complied and removed their app interstitial in favor of the app install banner that […]
Using Rel Canonical on All Pages for Duplicate Content Protection
In this week’s Google Webmaster Hangout, a question was raised about using rel canonical across an entire site, with each page using the rel canonical to point to itself, in order to prevent the possibility of duplicate content being indexed. The question asked was “Is it still okay to put rel canonical on every single […]
Google Revamping App Indexing Error Reporting, Adds to Data Anomalies Report
Google is revamping their app indexing error reporting that is shown to webmasters within Google Search Console. This showed up in a brand new section Google has added to their “Data Anomalies in Search Console” page. The new section, Crawl Errors Report, includes the reference to the new app indexing error reporting. Nov 20 (mobile […]
Google Manual Actions on a Subdomain Don’t Affect Rest of the Site
In a recent Google webmaster help thread on the forums, an interesting question was raised about whether a manual action received on a subdomain on a site could impact the rest of the site that is not on the subdomain. And the answer is no. John Mueller responded to a help thread where a dev […]
Gary Illyes’ Recommendations for Getting Featured Snippets
During Gary Illyes’ keynote at State of Search in Dallas, he talked quite a bit about featured snippets and gave some advice for those who are looking to get into the featured snippets. He said pages should either implicitly or explicitly state the question on the page, then answer the question. While he didn’t go […]