In yesterday’s Google Q&A with John Mueller and Andrey Lipattsev, I asked a question about Googlebot suddenly increasing the amount of crawling it does on a site, when there are no obvious reasons – such as a new URL structure – for Google to do so. Is it a sign of a Google update or […]
Archives for September 8, 2016
Google Analytics Real Time Reporting Down; Fix Expected Today
If you have tried accessing Google Analytics and the real time reporting since yesterday, you have probably discovered that real time reporting is not updating. Instead, users are seeing an empty report and an error message: Google first acknowledged the issue for some users yesterday: Some users may be experiencing issues with real time reporting. […]
Is Code to Text Ratio a Google Ranking Factor?
During yesterday’s Crawling and Indexing Q&A with Google, the question was raised about whether code (actual code on the page) to text (the text content) ratio has any impact on Google’s rankings. It is something that people periodically bringing up with regards to SEO. And compounding the issue that it is potentially important is that […]
Google Warns About Followed Links in Widgets Again
Google has posted a reminder for site owners to not use widgets that have a followed link within it. Despite it being clearly against Google’s webmaster guidelines, many site owners still gain links via widgets. And regardless of the motivation, links – in widgets or just as a regular link – cannot be placed in […]