In a webmaster hangout on YouTube, Google’s John Mueller shared useful information about the content Google uses for featured snippets. What are featured snippets? Featured snippets are also called ‘position zero’ results. Featured snippets...
Earlier this week, Google’s Danny Sullivan confirmed that the average description length on Google is not much shorter than it was with Google’s 300 characters experiment. The current average snippet length is 160 characters...
Google’s John Mueller said another thing that might be important if you have a JavaScript heavy website: Google only process the rel=canonical on the initially fetched, non-rendered version. That means that any canonical attributes...
Last week, Google started to send out mobile first indexing notices. The notification informs website owners that the search results will now reflect the mobile version of the website instead of the desktop version....
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...
Getting high rankings can be complicated if you do not have a clear plan. In the first part of our SEO checklist, we took a look at the technical things that should be checked....
Google’s Danny Sullivan confirmed a ‘broad core algorithm update’ four days ago. The update is still causing ranking changes for many websites (online discussion). What is a core algorithm update? Google has two types...
Local rank tracking is is important if you have a brick and mortar business. You have to be found for searches that are done by potential customers in the area where your business is...
Google’s John Mueller did an AMA (ask me anything) on reddit. He explained that Google does not target individual websites. Google’s engineers focus on the quality of the results for search queries: “We tend...
Google announced in a blog post that they’ve started migrating sites that follow the best practices for mobile-first indexing. What has changed? Previously, Google’s crawling, indexing, and ranking systems have used the desktop version...
Nearly 60 percent of all online searches are now carried out on mobile devices. If you want to reach all customers, your pages must be listed in the mobile search results. SEOprofiler offers many...
