Technical issues can have an influence on the rankings of your web pages on search engines.
The articles below help you to learn more about this topic.
In a webmaster hangout on YouTube, Google’s John Mueller confirmed that there are still problems with Google’s ranking algorithm. Google is working on it but they don’t know when the problems will be fixed:...
Google has announced the release of two new search operators on Twitter. The new before: search operator enables you to find web pages that have been published before a particular date. The new after:...
On Reddit, Google’s John Mueller confirmed that a website does not automatically get higher rankings when Google crawls the website more often. More crawling just means that Google will be able to see changes...
Some days ago, Google confirmed indexing problems. Sites dropped out of Google’s index for no reason. This was an error and Google tried to fix the problem: The indexing issue should be almost completely...
Last Friday, Google suddenly removed many web pages from the search results. It turned out that this was an error and Google tried to fix the problem: We're aware of indexing issues that impacted...
Google’s John Mueller confirmed on Twitter that it’s okay to hide registration information on WHOIS. A webmaster asked if the WHOIS information should be public to gain trust from Google bots. John Mueller answered...
A webmaster asked on twitter whether a 301 redirect from domain A to a page on domain B counts as a link from domain A to domain B. Google’s John Mueller said that 301...
On Twitter, Google’s John Mueller said that you have to work on your website if pages that have been excluded by your robots.txt file outrank the regular pages of your website in Google’s search...
Having a website that works well with mobile devices is very important as about 60% of all visitors view websites on Smartphones. But should you use mobile URLs, or should you use responsive web...
On Twitter, Google’s John Mueller said that accents in URLs work fine with Google. However, some tools (and maybe other search engines) might not work with them. Accents in URLs are no problem –...
On Twitter, Google’s John Mueller said that Google does not use link rel=”prev” and rel=”next” for paginated pages. These tags are used to show bots that individual pages are part of a larger set....
On Twitter, Google’s John Mueller confirmed that your website should not have pages that deliver a 5xx status code. 5xx status codes indicate server errors. If your web pages deliver such a status code...
