Google’s John Mueller and Martin Splitt teamed up for a special edition of the ‘Ask Google Webmasters’ video series to answer questions about site speed. Together, they each took turns answering a series of rather technical questions from SEOs – even some that appeared to go over Mueller’s head. Here’s a quick recap of each […]
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Google’s John Mueller recently stated there is no ideal sitemap size when it comes to optimizing a website’s crawl speed. The size of sitemap files generally won’t affect crawling, Mueller said in a Reddit thread. The original poster, who mentioned having a 5mb sitemap with 30k URLs, was asking whether large sitemaps can slow down
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Google’s John Mueller answered a question about getting links too fast and if that would trigger a penalty. The rate at which links are acquired is known in the SEO community as link velocity. John Mueller’s answer provided insight into the topic of getting links too fast and whether that results in penalties. Background of
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Google’s John Mueller recently discussed whether or not there are specific SEO considerations for websites with dark mode settings. This topic came up during the Google Webmaster Central hangout on October 18. With dark mode settings for websites growing in popularity, it was only a matter of time before Mueller was asked about this. Here
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Mueller questions why SEOs do not publish addresses on their about page. The SEO community responded with numerous reasons, ranging from it’s a negative ranking effect to they don’t service Local SEO. Why No Address in SEO Business Sites? John Mueller said that he was browsing through different SEO sites and noticed that many SEO
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In the latest instalment of the #AskGoogleWebmasters video series, John Mueller addresses a question about server migrations. Specifically, the question catered around how to maintain SEO while moving from one server to another. Here is the question that was submitted: “Our site is changing servers and I’ve had this go disastrously in the past. What
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Google doesn’t specifically measure the authority of a website, according to webmaster trends analyst John Mueller. This was stated in the most recent Google Webmaster Central hangout when Mueller was asked how a site can increase its authority. The webmaster who asked the question says their site lost a significant amount of organic traffic following
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Google’s John Mueller was asked about the value of inbound links for establishing a website’s Expertise, Authoritativeness and Trustworthiness (E-A-T). E-A-T has been encouraged by Googlers as something web publishers should cultivate. Could links be a way to demonstrate to Google that a site is expert, authoritative and trustworthy? Trustworthiness Ranking Signals There is an
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This is one of the weirdest answers that you might have imagined. One thing which is a fact is that Google is the best search engine in the world right now. This means that Googlers are responsible for making the best search engine and maintaining it as well. So the general perception would be that
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In a Google Webmaster Hangout, someone asked Google’s Webmaster Trends Analysis John Mueller about schema structured data and Expertise, Authoritativeness and trustworthiness. John Mueller offered insight into how how Google recognizes author information. Question About Increasing E-A-T Expertise, Authoritativeness and Trustworthiness are abbreviated as E-A-T. The question was about communicating author information. There is an
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