In last week’s Google hangout with John Mueller, he was asked about recent algo changes in the search results, a question that comes up often.  Nearly always, the response is that there are hundreds of changes, and there was most likely something that changed, but nothing major enough to warrant a comment from Google. This […]

During Google I/O last week, Richard Gingras talked about the new AMP reporting in Google Search Console that launched last week.  But interestingly, the screenshot he used showed off something extra… reporting for both featured snippets and rich cards. Here is the screenshot he used.  The arrow shows AMP but the other options are “Search […]

Google Search Console has launched a long-requested feature, the addition of tracking multiple properties at once for Search Analytics data.  This means if you have sites spread across multiple properties, such as https and non-https URLs, subdomains or country-specific domains for the same brand, you can now view these together as aggregated data. Verified Users  You […]

Google made a significant change to their search results this month.  They increased the width of the main column of the search results, and increased the length of the titles displayed in the search results.  And there was also a corresponding increase to the mobile title tag lengths too. John Mueller was asked in today’s […]

In today’s webmaster office hours, John Mueller from Google was asked about how links on a page to other pages influence the quality of that linking page.  This is something that has been debated in recent years and now we often see people restrict linking from their webpages for “quality reasons.” Do links within the […]