Google: manual penalties expire
Google has two ways to penalize websites that try to cheat the ranking system: algorithmic penalties and manual actions. With manual actions, real people apply a penalty to the website that does not comply...
Category: Technical Issues
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.
Google: alt text is extremely helpful for Google Images
On Twitter, Google’s John Mueller said that the image alt text is extremely helpful for Google Images. If you want to get ranked in Google images, you should make sure that your images have...
Google: use 301 redirects when switching from HTTP to HTTPS
Google’s John Mueller said in a webmaster hangout on YouTube, that you should stick with simple 301 redirects when migrating your website from HTTP to HTTPS. If you use other status codes such as...
International SEO: how to optimize your web pages for international markets
Does your website serves multiple languages and countries? It can be difficult to ensure that Google and other search engines index your web pages correctly. Read this article to learn how to get your...
All you need to know about Google’s latest core algorithm update
Google released a major ranking algorithm update on the 1st of August. Which websites were affected by the update? What can you do if your rankings dropped? Do you have to change something on...
Google has released a broad core algorithm update
Google has released a broad core algorithm update. Some webmasters already noticed changes in their rankings. Here’s Google official tweet: This week we released a broad core algorithm update, as we do several times...
Starting today, Google Chrome will mark HTTP websites as ‘not secure’
Until today, Google showed a small ‘i’ icon next to HTTP URLs. Starting today, there will be a ‘not secure’ label next to HTTP URLs: Even if your website does not ask for personal...
Google: we do not recognize sentiment in search
Google’s Danny Sullivan said on Twitter that Google search does not recognize sentiment. For that reason, there’s no search operator for that. Last fall, some people speculated that Google Search paid attention to brand...
Google: new referral source URLs for Google Images
Google announced in their official blog that they are going to roll out a new referrer URL specific to Google Images over the next few months. What is a referrer URL? The referrer URL...
Google: making a fast site faster won’t change it’s rankings
On Twitter, Google’s John Mueller clarified that the upcoming speed update will only impact the slowest sites. If you have a fast website, making it faster won’t change your rankings. Here’s what John Mueller...
Google: the order of the URLs in your XML Sitemap does not matter
The order of the URLs in your XML Sitemap does not matter, said Google’s John Mueller on Twitter. Save the start of the file for the most awesome URLs — the order among them...
Google’s John Mueller: algorithm updates are fast, site updates take time
If your website sees a big ranking drop, it’s most likely caused by a Google algorithm update. If you change your website, it can take weeks to months until you see changes in the...