How to identify thin content on your website
Web pages with thin content do not rank well on Google’s search result pages. How do you identify thin content pages on your website, and what should you do with that content? What is...
Category: Tips & Tricks
The right tips and tricks can help you to work much more efficiently with your web pages.
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Google: mixed HTTP/HTTPS content may break pages for Googlebot
Google announced on the official Google Webmaster Twitter account that mixed content may break your pages for users and Googlebot. If you moved to HTTPS and Chrome doesn't show a gray lock icon, there's...
Google: it’s good to understand HTTP status codes (and how to check your website codes)
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,...
Google: buying old domains can be risky
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...
H1 headings are important – or are they?
Some days ago, Google’s John Mueller published a video that created a lot of confusion about H1 heading tags. In the video, John Mueller said that Google can handle websites that contain multiple H1...
Disavowing links still works in 2019 – This tool helps you to do it
Dr. Marie Haynes has written a long blog post with the title “Does disavowing links work in 2019? Here are some case studies.” She comes to the conclusion that disavowing links still works: “We...
Google releases September 2019 broad core algorithm update
Google has announced the September 2019 broad core algorithm update on Twitter. The rollout of the update began on September, 24th and it will continue over the coming days: The September 2019 Core Update...
Google introduces two new link attributes and changes the way it treats nofollow links
Google announced in an official blog post that it changes the way it treats nofollow links. Until now, nofollow links were not considered by Google’s ranking algorithm. Google has introduced new link attributes and...
Google: you might get unstable results with m-dot domains (m.domain.com)
Google’s John Mueller said on YouTube that there you might get unstable rankings if you use an m-dot domain for your mobile web pages (for example m.domain.com). Although Google won’t drop support for m-dot...
Google: headings are useful for more than SEO
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that you should use headings on your web pages because they are useful for more than SEO: Headings are useful for more than just SEO … in general,...
How to get links from influential websites (two steps)
Although Google uses many different ranking signals, links from other websites are still the most important signal in Google’s ranking algorithm. The better the links that point to your website, the higher your rankings....
Google: it’s okay to use multiple structured data types on the same page
The Google webmaster team said on Twitter that you can use multiple structured data types on the same page: Hi Ps Nihal! Using multiple types of structured data on a page is fine. However,...