John Mueller said on Twitter that websites shouldn’t make Google guess. Google cannot separate accidentally-bad from purposely-wrong. A website used FAQ content on the mobile version of a page and other structured markup on...
Google’s John Mueller said that it can be risky to buy old domains. He said that you can clean up old domains if they have been used by spammers. However, it can take a...
In April of 2019, Google lost parts of their index. In the following weeks, Google had problems to index new content. It seems that Google is having issues again: We're aware of an issue...
Some days ago, Google’s John Mueller published a video that created a lot of confusion about H1 heading tags. In the video, John Mueller said that Google can handle websites that contain multiple H1...
Google’s Gary Illyes said on Twitter that core updates do not penalize websites. For example, cleaning your links won’t help if your rankings drop after a core update. Instead, it’s likely that other websites...
Google’s Danny Sullivan reminded webmasters on Twitter that websites can accidentally block themselves from Google. The site appears to have accidentally blocked itself from our search engine. They've since changed that, so it's now...
Google’s Danny Sullivan said on Twitter that Google’s algorithms cannot know that a particular expert has written your content. You should try to create expert content that sends the right quality signals. Google’s John...
Google has released quite a few ranking algorithm updates during the past few weeks. Have your rankings dropped? This article will help you to recover your rankings. Normal fluctuations are not the same as...
Google’s John Mueller said in a webmaster hangout on YouTube that some links can become less important over time. The reason for that is that the linking web pages can become less important. “[Links...
Google’s John Mueller said on Reddit that HTML sitemaps aren’t useful for SEO. Websites should be crawlable anyway. If visitors and search engines cannot find all pages of your website through the regular navigational...
Google’s John Mueller said it several times before: if possible, do not use m-dot domains for your mobile websites. Better use responsive web design. John Mueller has just said it again: Re:m-dot vs responsive/dynamic...
Gary Illyes said in a statement on Twitter that your website won’t get snippets (or rankings at all) if the HTML code of your web pages should contain more than a cookie/login interstitial. Some...
If you want something recognized as text, you should use real text on your web pages. Do not hide your text in images or in other elements that are not plain text. That’s what...
