The structure of a website is not a large factor in Google’s ranking algorithm. However, a solid website structure helps search engines to understand your website content and the relationships between the different pages...
On Twitter, Google’s John Mueller confirmed that Google crawls the web stateless. That means that cookies are not used by Google’s bot when crawling web pages. Although Google can parse websites that require cookies...
On Twitter, Google’s John Mueller said that Google uses the ccTLD (country code top level domain) and the settings in the Google Search Console to determine the geographic location of a website. In the...
The canonical tag helps webmaster to show Google the preferred URL of a web page. Some people only use the canonical tag when there are duplicate pages that show the same or similar content....
On Twitter, Google’s John Mueller said that bold text on web pages is good for web pages and website visitors: You'll probably get more out of bolding text for human users / usability in...
Google’s John Mueller said on Google that exact match domains (EMD) do not get a magical ranking bonus on Google. For example, your website won’get a ranking bonus for the keyword “blue widgets” if...
In an online discussion, Google’s John Mueller said that embedding a YouTube on a web pages does not give the page a ranking boots: “A YouTube video alone doesn’t make a page high-quality :),...
Every website has pages that can be requested with different URLs. This can lead to duplicate content issues with search engines. Several things can lead to duplicate pages with different URLs: the HTTP and...
If your website has been hit by Panda, it won’t help to move your website to a new domain. Google Panda is part of Google’s core algorithm. Websites with low quality content are downranked...
On Twitter, Google’s Gary Illyes confirmed that Google likes breadcrumb navigation links. In general, Google likes websites that provide a good user experience and websites with a clear navigation. Breadcrumb navigation helps shows how...
In an online discussion, a webmaster asked why his dynamic website was not indexed properly. Google’s John Mueller explained that Google might not index URLs that repeat the same path element multiple times: “The...
Being ranked on Google’s first results page as the first result is a great thing. If you have such a ranking for the right keywords, you will get thousands of targeted visitors. Did you...
