At Google’s I/O developer conference, Google’s John Mueller and Tom Greenway clarified that Googlebot won’t follow all links on a page. If your website uses JavaScript links, not all pages of your website might...
On Twitter, Google’s John Mueller said that your website should not use 403 HTTP status codes. Pages that deliver a 403 status should be removed: 403 is a bit weird but should drop the...
In a webmaster hangout on YouTube, a webmaster asked if ugly websites, or difficult to use websites, have ranking issues on Google. Google’s John Mueller said that these websites could get bad rankings because...
Some days ago, Google’s John Mueller said that Google can figure out different languages without the hreflang attribute. In a forum discussion on Reddit, he added that having the wrong hreflang attribute can be...
If your website is available in multiple languages, it is usually a good idea to use the hreflang attribute to show Google the different language versions of your website. Unfortunately, incorrectly implemented hreflang attributes...
In a webmaster hangout on YouTube, Google’s John Mueller talked about the influence of AMP on the rankings of your web pages. Your website will be listed differently on Google’s search result pages (for...
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...
