If you have an exit interstitial – an interstitial that only displays once a user tries to leave a site – they won’t be impacted by Google’s upcoming mobile interstitial change which would see pages with interstitials lose their mobile friendly ranking boost. The question came up in the Google Webmaster Office Hours this week […]
Archives for October 19, 2016
Google: Leave 301 Redirects in Place at Least a Year, Preferably Longer
When you undergo a site move, it is standard to set up 301 redirects from the old domains to the new ones. While many recommend leaving those redirects in place permanently, in practice this isn’t always an option or even if it is needed. The question came up about redirects and John Mueller from Google […]
Site Wide & Blogroll Links Are Not Automatically Bad Links for Google
With the release of real time Penguin, there have been a lot of questions about link quality and link value. In the last Webmaster Office Hours, John Mueller was asked specifically about site wide links, such as those found on blogrolls. Now, blogroll links used to be pretty common many years ago, but as reciprocal […]
Google Testing Write a Review in the Local Knowledge Panel
Google is hoping searchers add local reviews to businesses with a new “Write a Review” test in the search results within the local knowledge panel. Here is what it looks like on mobile: It is a call to action style box within the local knowledge panel with “Write a review” showing underneath the section on […]