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’s John Mueller said in a webmaster hangout that it is important that the pages on your website are linked from other pages of your website. You should make sure that you do have...
If you want to be listed on Google, Google must be able to discover, evaluate, and index your content. What’s the difference between these steps and how can you facilitate the process? 1. Web...
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that having two canonical tags with different URLs on the same page is the same as having an undefined canonical tags: AFAIK it's just undefined (so if you...
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 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...
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...
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...
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that Google uses many different signals for canonicalization: redirects, internal ande external links, sitemaps, hreflang, canonicals, cleaner URLs, and other signals. If the same page is available at...
Google wants to show fast web pages in the search results. For that reason, your web pages should be as fast as possible: Users will leave websites that are too slow, frozen, or not...
A solid website structure helps search engines to understand your website content. The easier it is to find out what your web pages are about, the more likely it is that your web pages...
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that you should not block Googlebot from crawling 404 pages on your website. That sounds like a really bad idea which will cause all sorts of problems.. You...
