Lidia Infante asked Google’s John Mueller an excellent question on international SEO. She asked why do you think each country and language site needs a different approach to success in SEO? Is it about Google’s understanding of languages or more …
Year: 2021
New Google Merchant Center Website Needs Improvement Policy Status
Google announced a new Google Shopping and Google Merchant Center policy update where sites that do not meet certain professional and editorial standards would have their accounts suspended. They will be notified with a “Website needs improvement” policy status in …
Google Says Search Traffic Changes Aren’t Always Indicative Of Technical Issues
Google’s John Mueller told one website owner on Twitter, and I quote, “I would not assume traffic changes are indicative of technical issues – it’s easy to spend a lot of time “fixing” technical things when the problem is elsewhere.”…
Google May Increase Enforcement On User Generated Content Spam With Penalties?
The other week, Google posted a fresh blog post named prevent portions of your site from being abused by spam. The advice was not too far off from the advice the company published in 2017. So why publish this new …
Google Search Console Might One Day Add More Specific 404 vs 410 Reporting
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that many folks ask for more detailed 404/410 information within Google Search Console. So while Google may not provide those details today, he said “I wouldn’t count it out forever.” It is just Google …
Hide Your Phone Number In Google My Business / Google Local
Google seems to be adding a setting to Google My Business to allow businesses to hide their phone numbers from showing up in Google Maps and Google Search’s local results. An updated Google help document says you can now “hide …
Google Will Prefetch Websites Built Using Signed Exchanges
Jeffery Jose, Google Product Manager, not only announced that the page experience update is coming to desktop at Google I/O but also announced that “Google Search will prefetch websites built using signed exchanges.” He said this was announced earlier this …
Memorial Day Logos From Google, Yahoo & Bing
Today is Memorial Day in the United States and to honor the day, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft Bing all have special logos or themes on their home page. Google also has a special inside page for its search results with …
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 31, 2021
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today… …
Vlog #122: John Shehata On The Early Days of Google News & SEO (Part One)
John Shehata is the Global Vice Present of Audience Development Strategy & CRM at Condé Nast. John also founded NewzDash.com, an SEO software toolset for news publishers. But more importantly… …
Google Podcast: Deeper Insight Into Serving & More Fun Tidbits
I have to say, I love these Search Off The Record podcasts because they always contain really useful details on how Google Search works and the hosts are always fun to listen to, when they chat together. In this episode …
6 Months Since The Last Google Core Update, Google Will Announce When A New Update Is Released
It is just about six months since the last Google core update (5 weeks and 25 days) since the December 2020 core update. We have not had a core update in all of 2021. And no, Google did not release …
Google: AJAX Crawling Scheme For Search Not Supported Again
The AJAX crawling schema has like nine lives, it has died many deaths but has kept coming back. The latest, John Mueller of Google said last week that “we dropped support for AJAX crawling a while ago, and now just …
The Grammy process for independent musicians
How to get nominated for a Grammy as an independent musician. For most viewers and musicians, the Grammy awards are what we see on TV: big-time artists and much-hyped newcomers accepting trophies in a night dominated by the major players …