Google’s Danny Sullivan said on Twitter that Google’s new passage indexing won’t change the look of the search results: Passage ranking has nothing to do with display. It's simply another ranking mechanism we will...
Google likes fast web pages. According to Google’s John Mueller, web pages should load within three seconds or less. Page speed is a factor in Google’s ranking algorithm. Fast web pages are important Google...
Google’s John Mueller told a webmaster on Twitter that it wasn’t good to use confusing redirects on a website. We have the hardest time crawling & rendering your pages. You redirect https->http->https, and then...
Google has announced that the December 2020 Core Update is now rolling out live. It will take 1-2 weeks to fully roll out. The December 2020 Core Update is now rolling out live. As...
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that you cannot force a HTTP/2 crawl for your website. There is also no ranking advantage if Google’s crawls your website that way. AFAIK we don't manually pick...
Google’s John Mueller said in a webmaster hangout that it is important that the pages on your website are linked from other pages of your website. You should make sure that you do have...
If you want to be listed on Google, Google must be able to discover, evaluate, and index your content. What’s the difference between these steps and how can you facilitate the process? 1. Web...
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that having two canonical tags with different URLs on the same page is the same as having an undefined canonical tags: AFAIK it's just undefined (so if you...
In last weeks announcement, Google said that they are now able to index individual passages from web pages. Although Google called it ‘passage indexing’, it does not mean that Google indexes individual passages. Google...
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that Google will index content and links if it is in the rendered HTML code of the page. That means that content and links won’t be indexed if...
Google’s John Mueller has confirmed that, starting March 2021, Google will only use mobile crawlers to index web pages. Instead of ‘mobile first’ indexing, it should be called ‘mobile only’ indexing: It has to...
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...
