There has been some confusion over the last few days over Google’s AdWords Keyword Planner and whether or not it includes organic traffic or if it just includes searches where an AdWords ad was available to be served. Glenn Gabe asked AdWords about whether these estimates were based on ads or all searches, and he […]
Archives for July 8, 2016
Google Resending Some New Site Owner Notifications in Search Console
The question came up in Google’s Webmaster Office Hours today, specifically about many “new site owner notifications” that many webmasters have been receiving. When site owners receive this, the first thing that comes to mind is that the site has somehow been hacked and a hacker has added themselves to the Google Search Console account, […]
No Google Ranking Boost for Using Both XML & HTML Sitemaps
While XML sitemaps are the gold standard for SEOs, since they can be submitted to Google for indexing purposes, what about using both XML and HTML sitemaps on a site together? Would there be any kind of ranking boost specific to the use of both? The question came up in today’s Google Webmaster Office Hours […]
No Google Penalty for Not Linking Out to Other Sites
If you never link to any other sites from your own site, could it be considered a penalty? While most know that linking out to high authority sites doesn’t make a site seem higher quality, recent outbound manual actions have definitely made it so that some site owners are a little bit leery of linking […]