Quality Affects Everything In Google’s Search Systems But How Does It Impact Large Old Sites
There is a fun new Google Search Off the Record podcast to listen to with John Mueller and Gary Illyes from the Google Search team. The short is that quality…
Read more » Google FAQ Rich Results Only Displayed For Authoritative Sites
A month ago, Google told us that FAQ rich results in the Google search results will be shown for only authoritative sites but we waited over a month and nothing…
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Google Confirms Google Sites Are “Not Ideal For SEO Purposes”
Google’s John Mueller offered advice about the use of Google Sites for SEO, downplaying the usefulness of Google Sites for SEO. Google Sites Google Sites is a website creation service…
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Schema usage up 4x among top ranking ecommerce sites
With SEO planning for the holiday season already underway, schema usage seems to be a top priority for ecommerce brands that own the top-ranking keyword positions. Compared to 2022, schema…
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How To Manage Crawl Budget For Large Sites
The Internet is an ever-evolving virtual universe with over 1.1 billion websites. Do you think that Google can crawl every website in the world? Even with all the resources, money,…
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Google Removes Mobile-Friendly, Page Speed, Secure Sites & Page Experience As Retired Ranking Systems
Google has updated its documented ranking systems page over here to remove four ranking systems from the list, including removing three ranking systems. Google has removed the page experience system…
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WordPress Security Plugin Vulnerability Affects +1 Million Sites
WordPress security plugin discovered to have two vulnerabilities that could allow a malicious upload, cross-site scripting and allow viewing of contents of arbitrary files. All-In-One Security (AIOS) WordPress Plugin The…
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Google’s John Mueller On Links From News Sites
Google’s John Mueller commented in a Twitter discussion about the supposed ranking power of links from news sites and offered a different way of thinking about how Google treats those…
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Google On Staging Sites & Preventing Accidental Indexing
The latest episode of Google’s Search Off The Record podcast discusses the challenges of launching websites and preventing staging sites from being indexed by search engines. Staging sites used for…
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Google Explains Why Sites Should Combine Structured Data
Google’s Lizzi Sassman answered a question in a Google SEO Office hours session about whether it’s okay to combine different structured data types. The answer illuminated an important point about…
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