Google: buying old domains can be risky
Google’s John Mueller said that it can be risky to buy old domains. He said that you can clean up old domains if they have been used by spammers. However, it can take a...
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 has indexing problems
In April of 2019, Google lost parts of their index. In the following weeks, Google had problems to index new content. It seems that Google is having issues again: We're aware of an issue...
Google: some websites accidentally block themselves from Google
Google’s Danny Sullivan reminded webmasters on Twitter that websites can accidentally block themselves from Google. The site appears to have accidentally blocked itself from our search engine. They've since changed that, so it's now...
Google: don’t hide your content behind your cookie notice
Gary Illyes said in a statement on Twitter that your website won’t get snippets (or rankings at all) if the HTML code of your web pages should contain more than a cookie/login interstitial. Some...
Google releases September 2019 broad core algorithm update
Google has announced the September 2019 broad core algorithm update on Twitter. The rollout of the update began on September, 24th and it will continue over the coming days: The September 2019 Core Update...
Reminder: it’s not enough to remove technical errors to rank well (but it’s important)
Technical errors can block search engines from accessing your web pages. Unfortunately, it is not enough to fix these technical errors. You need more to get high rankings on Google and other search engines....
Google: errors in schema markup do not affect rankings
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that errors in schema markup do not affect the search engine rankings of the web pages that contain that code. However, Google won’t be able to show rich...
Google: we drop web pages with server errors from our index
Google’s John Mueller said in a webmaster hangout on YouTube that Google will drop pages from its index if server errors persist for a longer period: “If we see server errors persisting for a...
Google introduces two new link attributes and changes the way it treats nofollow links
Google announced in an official blog post that it changes the way it treats nofollow links. Until now, nofollow links were not considered by Google’s ranking algorithm. Google has introduced new link attributes and...
Google: you might get unstable results with m-dot domains (m.domain.com)
Google’s John Mueller said on YouTube that there you might get unstable rankings if you use an m-dot domain for your mobile web pages (for example m.domain.com). Although Google won’t drop support for m-dot...
Google: check your canonical tags
Google’s Gary Illyes reminded webmasters on Twitter that they should check the URLs that they use in canonical tags on their web pages. Hey. HEY!! If you like rel=canonical, could you maybe check what...
Google about 404, soft 404 and 301 HTTP status codes
In two Twitter posts, Google’s John Mueller explained how Google treats 301 HTTP status codes that are changes to 404 HTTP status codes and soft 404 pages. 1. If you change a 301 code...