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While there are plenty of SEO tricks to try and get featured snippets in the Google search results, Gary Illyes said that he is pushing to get oddicial documentation released on how to get featured snippets. It would be nice to see something official from Google on this.  They haven’t talked much at all about […]

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. […]

John Mueller has announced on Google+ that they have added a great new feature to Google Search Console – a new severity rating for any blocked or unreachable resources on a webpage. Here is how it looks: It shows the severity of the issue – Low, Medium or High. According to Mueller, the rating is […]

While some webmasters have set up their mobile version of the site to redirect to a separate page, rather than the same page as desktop, usually as a m.example.com or example.com/mobile/ structure, Google is warning some webmasters that they need to ensure those redirects are actually redirecting users to the correct page and website. Google […]

SEOs have begun noticing that Google is showing links in Google Search Console that aren’t true links at all.  Rather, they are text URLs that are not even linked at all.  But Google is showing them in Search Console as if they are a true link, even though the actual hyperlink isn’t there. With them […]

Google is now offering additional information on websites that Google has added the malware warning too. The warnings themselves aren’t new, but now users can look up and find out exactly what is triggering the warning that displays “The site ahead contains malware” on the red interstitial. Google has a new site status section in […]

When a site gets hacked, you can almost always count on it being used to promote one of several market areas.  Google recently announced their hacked site algo, which would see hacked results removed from the search results.  But Gary Illyes from Google revealed another interesting fact about it… that it impacts spammy queries only. […]

A reminder that when you move your site to HTTPS, don’t forget that you need to include your disavow file in the move. The question came up on Twitter and Gary Illyes confirmed that webmasters will need to transfer over any disavow files to the new HTTPS site in Google Search Console. @AnnieCushing @MattNorman_90 okay, […]

There has been plenty of discussion over the past couple of days about Panda and thin versus thick content and when someone should improve quality versus remove suspected low quality content. More questions about this came up at Gary Illyes’ Pubcon keynote Thursday.  Jenny Halasz from JLH Marketing referenced the recent long Twitter discussion from […]

One of the surprising things to come out of Thursday’s Ask the Search Engines session at SMX East was a comment from Gary Illyes regarding authorship… something that many webmasters stopped implementing a year ago after authorship and related photos were dropped from the search results.  But looks like you might want to consider adding […]