If your website has been hacked, Google might show a warning label next to your website in the search results. What is hacked content? According to Google, hacked content is ‘any content placed on...
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that it’s good to understand that the different HTTP status codes that your web pages can send. It's good to understand the difference between 200, (301/302), (404/410), 500,...
If your robots.txt file or your sitemap file is ranking for normal queries, you should improve the quality of your web pages. That’s what Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter: Use the x-robots-tag HTTP...
Google’s John Mueller said in a webmaster hangout on YouTube that Google won’t index dynamically created content if it requires an interaction from the website visitor. “You’re saying this is behind JavaScript functions. There’s...
Google’s Danny Sullivan said on Twitter that BERT doesn’t assign values to pages. It’s just a way for Google to better understand language. BERT is about sentences and phrases. There are other ways to...
Google announced that they will stop supporting Flash later this year. In Web pages that contain Flash content, Google Search will ignore the Flash content. Google Search will stop indexing standalone SWF files. Most...
Google has announced a major change to the ranking algorithm. According to Google, it’s “a significant improvement to how [Google understands] queries, representing the biggest leap forward in the past five years, and one...
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that you should not expect to get the rankings of the old website if you redirect the domain of that old website to a new website with different...
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...
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’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...
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...
