Google’s John Mueller said on Reddit that if you want to slow Google from crawling your site (or speed it up), it can take about a day from when you set the crawl rate setting in Google Search Console for …
Month: September 2021
Google Titles Are Changing In Search But For The Better?
About a month ago, Google made a change to the snippet titles it shows in its search results, then confirmed that change a week after it was launched. The SEO community went a bit nuts about the changes and Google …
Google: We Do Not Differentiate Between Category, Filter, Tag Or Search Pages
Google’s John Mueller said in a video hangout that Google Search does not specifically differentiate and treat differently category pages or filter pages or search pages or tag pages from other pages. John said it is not about the technical …
Google: Ignore Mobile Usability Issue Notices If You Pass Live Test
Google’s John Mueller said that if your page passes the live mobile usability test – that means you can ignore the Search Console notices of “new mobile usability issues detected for site.” So as long as you pass the live …
Google Merchant Center Unique Product Identifier Enforcement
Google announced that beginning on September 15, 2021 Google will enforce correct unique product identifiers (UPIs) for your products uploaded to Google Merchant Center, even for free listings. Google said it is “expanding this enforcement and applying it to products …
Google: Smart Internal Linking Can Help Google Trust Your Site More
I found it super interesting to listen to a dialog between a new German startup and Google’s John Mueller. The conversation leads to John Mueller …
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 14, 2021
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today… …
How to Earn Passive Income as a Musician
Streaming revenue. Publishing royalties. CD sales. We’ve talked a lot about those revenue sources. But today we’re talking about a lesser-known source of music revenue: passive income. What is passive income? Passive income is any revenue generated after work is …
Google’s John Mueller Explains Passage Ranking In More Detail
We’ve covered the topic of Google passage ranking with tons of articles over the past several months. But in this past Google video hangout with John Mueller, John explained in a nice way what passage ranking is all about. …
Google: Lead Gen Forms Or CTAs Can Sometimes Be Seen As Ads When…
Google’s John Mueller said that sometimes Google can treat a large lead generation form or call-to-action as an ad if the content on the page is not on the same topic as what is in the lead gen form or …
Google: content-visibility CSS Won’t Impact Google Search
Google’s John Mueller said that he does not believe that the new content-visibility CSS that modern Chrome browsers support won’t impact Google Search. It may impact the speed of your pages, that can impact your core web vitals but outside …
Google Embedding Links In Featured Snippets Again
It looks like Google is testing embedding links in featured snippets again. It is hard to find examples of this but Brodie Clark and a few others spotted some examples. We first reported on this last November and then saw …
Google: Site Quality Is Not About The Pages Missing From The Google Index
Google’s John Mueller explained that you really need to look at your site as a whole when determining if your site is quality or not. Do not simply look at the pages Google did not index or the pages Google …
Google Tests Larger Sitelinks Block Design Again
Google is testing a larger sitelinks layout block design again. Google tested tons and tons of sitelinks formats over the years including this one. It began testing this look again a few months ago but the tests seem to be …