Everyone has done vanity searches for their own name, especially those whose name is connected with their business.  Google has just made it a bit easier to track new mentions of your name with the addition of a new “Stay in the loop” feature that they are adding to the search results. When someone searches […]

Doing disavows and link removals is always an interesting thing.  And too often, sites are too aggressive in removing good quality links, which means that not only are sites losing rankings from the spam links artificially boosting the ranks, but they are also losing rankings due to the great quality links being caught in the […]

Sometimes SEOs use nofollow for crawl budget reasons, particularly for sites that are very large in size or that have a structure that doesn’t tend to be crawled as optimally as it could be.   So SEOs use nofollow to prevent Google from following certain links during the regular crawl, in order to direct Googlebot to […]

There has been a lot of debate on the issue of 301 versus 302 redirects over the years, specifically regarding the loss of PageRank.  Gary Illyes from Google has confirmed now that when you are using a 30x redirect – such as a 301 (permanent), 302 (temporary) or 307 (temporary) redirect – that the destination […]

Ever since Google sent out the manual actions for outbound links, mostly targeting bloggers linking without disclosing compensation, there has been new focus on outbound links and the possibility of it hurting the site doing the linking.  Google has already said webmasters shouldn’t nofollow all their outbound links and there is no outbound link penalty […]

Google has talked previously about handling pages that will be temporarily removed from the index, such as out of stock products. In the last English/Hindi Google Webmaster Office Hours, Aaseesh Marina from Google, one of the hosts of the English/Hindi office hours, was asked about pages that are expired, but could be made live again […]

John Mueller and Mariya Moeva, Webmaster Trends Analysts with Google, did a virtual keynote with Stone Temple all about mobile search.  And one of the more interesting stats shared was about the differences between typed and voice queries. Moeva said that when someone does a voice search, Google sees about 30 times more action queries […]

Want to get your website reviewed by Googlers?  Google is once again doing a live site clinic, a followup to one they did earlier this year. The deadline to submit your sites is today, so you will need to get your sites submitted quickly if you would like to be chosen.  You can submit your […]