Google is deprecating the use of social profile markup, which was once necessary for social media buttons to display in knowledge panels. Going forward, Google says it will automatically discover relevant social media profiles and include them in knowledge panels Anyone with a claimed knowledge panel will be able to suggest social media profiles that Read more
This is the power of backlinks at their best. A recent client complained that they have never ranked on page one of Google for their brand name product. After a thorough review of the site and it’s off page factors I listed out the issues the site faced and what would correct the site’s performance. Read more
Google’s Gary Illyes updated his original writeup on crawl budget with clarification about disallowed URLs. The document now includes the following information: “Q: Do URLs I disallowed through robots.txt affect my crawl budget in any way? A: No, disallowed URLs do not affect the crawl budget.” The question refers to the “User-agent: * Disallow: /” Read more
Almost everyone has heard of the importance of site speed, even the average blogger with lackluster technical skills. In a previous article we did a comparison between two domains and found speed was the likely signal pushing one site above another in mobile searches. Google wants to provide sites that users will actually use. You Read more
Leading song lyrics site Genius.com has accused Google of stealing its content and publishing it in search results. A report was published in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend which contains evidence to back up the accusations. Complaints from Genius against Google date back several years, as Google was first notified in 2017 that Read more
Google’s John Mueller was asked in a Webmaster Hangout what to do if a site is suffering a traffic loss due to Google’s June 2019 broad core algorithm update. John Mueller’s answer provided insights into understanding what is happening. Then Mueller provided hope that Google may offer further guidance on what to do. Webmaster Asks Read more
I am looking for a contractor to improve some basic function (fix broken links, etc), improve aesthetic design, and perform on page seo work to improve search ranking for some specific local keywords. Posted On: June 11, 2019 14:45 UTCCategory: Sales & Marketing > SEO – Search Engine Optimization Skills: Organic Traffic Growth, SEO Audit Read more
Google doesn’t specifically measure the authority of a website, according to webmaster trends analyst John Mueller. This was stated in the most recent Google Webmaster Central hangout when Mueller was asked how a site can increase its authority. The webmaster who asked the question says their site lost a significant amount of organic traffic following Read more
We’re a small/medium sized ecommerce retailer undergoing a major rebranding project including a change of our name and the top level domain of our site’s URL. In support of this rebranding, we’re seeking a talented and experienced technical SEO expert to help us ensure our domain name change has as little impact as possible on our Read more
Google announced that they will be hosting free conferences worldwide. The goal is to bring search related information direct to people in their own country and in their own language. Each event will be completely free. Google promised to reveal the details of more Webmaster Conferences coming to communities around the world. What Are the Read more