In last weeks announcement, Google said that they are now able to index individual passages from web pages. Although Google called it ‘passage indexing’, it does not mean that Google indexes individual passages. Google...
Google’s Martin Splitt confirmed on Twitter that crawling isn’t indexing, indexing isn’t ranking. Ah you see1) Crawling doesn't mean it's getting indexed (see "Crawled but not indexed" in GSC) 2) If it's indexed but...
Google has shared how they’re bringing AI (artificial intelligence) into their products. This can have an impact on the rankings of your web pages on Google. How Google uses AI in search Google uses...
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that Google will index content and links if it is in the rendered HTML code of the page. That means that content and links won’t be indexed if...
Google’s John Mueller has confirmed that, starting March 2021, Google will only use mobile crawlers to index web pages. Instead of ‘mobile first’ indexing, it should be called ‘mobile only’ indexing: It has to...
Many businesses try to cut costs by hiring cheap SEO service providers. How good are these SEO services and should you use them? Three popular cheap SEO services There are many ways to get...
A webmaster complained on Twitter that a post that he published on Medium.com outranked the original post on his own blog. Google’s John Mueller said that this can happen: If you post the same...
If your website serves multiple languages and countries, it can be difficult to make sure that Google and other search engines index your web pages correctly. There are several ways to handle international content....
A new study finds that Google uses the meta descriptions of web pages about 30% of the time for pages on the first page of search results. For the other 70%, Google rewrites the...
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that Google will pick the HTTPS version of your website if it is available with both HTTPS and HTTP. Having both versions isn’t a problem for SEO, but...
John Mueller said in a webmaster hangout on YouTube that the anchor text of a link is more important than the text around the link. “[The text around a link is] secondary, like that...
The keywords that you choose for your web pages are the most important factors that decide whether you will succeed with your website or not. A number 1 listing on Google can be pointless...
Google’s John Mueller said that it doesn’t matter if your website is hosted on an IP address that also hosts other websites that are spammy. However, you should choose a fast and reliable web...
