Google’s John Mueller said there is nothing wrong with using the Google Search Console URL inspection tool to request indexing but the better route is to have Google discover those new URLs on that new site through external links. Google said it is simply better to have links to the site and for Google to […]
Yesterday, Google confirmed that some folks trying to use the URL Inspection tool via the console or even the API may be seeing errors. Google said it is working on a fix but almost a day later, some are still having issues and Google has yet to confirm it is resolved. Google wrote on Twitter […]
Google is testing showing the site name and URL twice in the search result snippets in Google mobile search. So not only do you see the name of the site or the URL with the favcion from the site, but you are also seeing it doubled up with the site name on top of it, […]
I posted the monthly Google webmaster report for February 2022, so check it out. Google released a new API for the Google URL Inspection Tool – it’s exciting. Google seems to be clearing out the manual action backlog. Google also issued a slew of new manual actions for Google News and Google Discover. Some are […]
Google’s John Mueller confirmed that the search engine company’s 2014 guidelines on faceted navigation still apply today – don’t use non-standard URL encoding. That means don’t use commas, brackets, or other non-standard URL encodings in your URL structure. Instead, use ampersands, equals signs, dashes, or other supported and standard URL-encoded URLs for your fascinating navigation. […]
Alan Bleiweiss, a smart and fun SEO, asked Google’s John Mueller if Google has a “Google Book of Secrets” that saves all algorithmic changes in one place. The short answer is yes, Google saves all the changes it makes, but John’s long answer is that this isn’t always useful. The question came from 38:26 marks […]
Google’s John Mueller said that including the category name or topic name in your url slug won’t affect your ranking in any way. I’m not 100% sure he really meant NULL, but he used a GIF that says NULL. Here is the set of tweets on Twitter so that you can see it for yourself: […]
Google’s John Mueller responded to an SEO question that asked him if he should undo the URL site migration changes made a year ago in order to restore the blog’s traffic. In which John Mueller said his guess is that the “traffic change had nothing to do with the URL changes they made a year […]
Google has Updated three of its publicly available Search Console tools to match and “align” with the URL inspection tool in Google Search Console. especially the AMP, Mobile friendly, and Rich results Tools are now visually and functionally similar and identical to the URL inspection tool. This is what the mobile-friendly test looks like in […]
We have known for likes Google does it and can treat the same url but differently with different cases. Therefore, domain.com/Apple vs. domain.com/apple can be viewed as different URLs by Google. But Google seems to be stricter on this rule when it comes to the robots.txt file. Using domain.com/Apple vs. domain.com/apple, Google can tell if […]