On Twitter, Google’s John Mueller said that it was a bad idea to server content based on the user-agent language setting. Most desktop browsers have settings that allow you to check or change the...
On Twitter, Google’s John Mueller said that you can use your website domain name with or without www. For Google, both versions are the same: Curious #seo question..what's preferred, a 'non www' url or...
On Twitter, Google’s John Mueller confirmed that the size of a CSS file has no influence on the rankings of a website: The amount of CSS is usually no problem (<10's of MBs), for...
When you do an SEO audit to validate the indexability of your web pages, you have to consider many technical items. Without an error-free website, it will be very difficult to get good visibility...
A webmaster asked on Twitter if it was okay to use sticky footers. A sticky footer is a footer that sticks to the bottom of the browser’s viewport as you scroll. It usually contains...
If you do not use the canonical tag correctly, your search engine rankings might drop. In a Google webmaster hangout, Google’s John Mueller said that Google will ignore the canonical tag if there is...
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...
In a Google webmaster hangout, Google’s John Mueller confirmed the importance of alternative image texts, especially for mobile pages. “Specifically around images in general – not specific to image links, but images in general...
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....
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...
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...
In a video on YouTube, Google’s John Mueller said that a higher crawl rate does not mean that a website gets higher rankings on Google. You can get high rankings even if your website...
