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...
Although Google can parse JavaScript pages, it is better not to use JavaScript for critical website elements such as content, links, or redirects. Google’s Gary Illyes has just confirmed this on Twitter. In a...
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that it’s okay to host your website on an IP address that is also used by bad websites. Shared hosting & CDNs on a single IP is really...
Google has announced a core algorithm update on Twitter. This is the second core update of the 2020 year, the first update was the January 2020 core update. What should you do now? Later...
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that Google may start to deindex URLs after two days if your website is down. Depending on how it goes down, we can start dropping URLs after a...
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that you should keep URL redirects active for as long as possible. If you change domains, keep the old domain to keep the redirects active. I'd usually try...
A webmaster asked on Twitter whether it was okay to separate words with slashes in the title of a web page (for example word1/word2). Google’s John Mueller said that using slashes in the title...
