In a webmaster hangout on YouTube, Google’s John Mueller explained how to reverse a move to a new website URL structure. He also said that this is not a simple task: “So I guess...
In a webmaster hangout on YouTube, Google’s John Mueller said that the mobile-first indexing rollout had nothing to do with Google’s recent ranking algorithm update. He also said that the mobile-first indexing rollout is...
It seems that Google published another ranking algorithm update around March, 23rd. This might have been an improvement of the previous core algorithm update, or it was a new update. Google hasn’t shared details...
In a webmaster hangout on Google, Google’s John Mueller explained how Googlebot handles crawling after major website changes: “If we recognize that there are significant changes on the website, we will just try to...
Google released a major ranking algorithm update on March 7th. People are still noticing changes that are related to that update. The March update was one of Google’s biggest updates we’ve seen in a...
Over the past few years, Google has dramatically improved the ability to index web pages that require JavaScript to display their content. Can you get high rankings with JavaScript-only web pages? If Google can...
Google’s Danny Sullivan confirmed a Google algorithm update on Twitter. He said that Google does focused updates nearly daily. Broad core algorithm updates happen several times per year: Yes, see here: https://t.co/gckGCFT9tJ— Danny Sullivan...
Bing officials confirmed that Bing supports JSON-LD in addition to Microdata and RDFa for structured data. That means that you do not have to use the more complicated microdata code anymore. This was just...
GS1 is a new schema markup for products. Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that Google does not use GS1 markup at all. Google does not use it for search, ranking, rich cards, or...
Lazy loading images means loading images on websites asynchronously. This can be done by showing images only when they appear in the browser’s viewport. If users don’t scroll all the way down, images placed...
On Twitter, Google’s Eric Bidelman said that GoogleBot is unable to crawl CSS custom properties: PSA: Google Search crawler ? is based on Chrome 41 [1], which does NOT support CSS Custom Properties [2]....
Some websites use Sitemaps to show Google the canonical versions of their web pages. Google’s has updated the official page about canonicals and they say that Sitemap canonicals are ‘less powerful’. “Cons of Sitemap...
