While you would imagine that only small websites would need to do SEO, that is certainly not the case. We have seen that many big websites have SEO professionals working on their website as well. However, someone on Reddit asked a very interesting question to which Google’s John Mu answered. In this question, the user […]
Google’s John Mueller recently stated that URLs should be kept under 1,000 characters in length. This number was mentioned in a Google Webmaster Central hangout during a discussion about URL length as it relates to SEO. While it’s uncommon for URLs to reach, much less exceed, 1,000 characters – it’s not impossible. Various factors such
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Google launched a new video series that answers a single question. The first episode was about links but in my opinion it did not adequately answer the question. The question is: “Does linking to other websites help or hurt SEO?” The SEO community has thought of outbound links as ranking signals since at least 2002.
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Google’s John Mueller recently offered advice on migrating to a different web platform with minimal impact on SEO. More specifically, Mueller added his knowledge of how Google works to a conversation about the web platform Wix. In a thread titled “Is WIX really that bad?”, a user left a comment saying: “Yeah, because if and
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Google’s John Mueller was asked in a Webmaster Hangout what to do if a site is suffering a traffic loss due to Google’s June 2019 broad core algorithm update. John Mueller’s answer provided insights into understanding what is happening. Then Mueller provided hope that Google may offer further guidance on what to do. Webmaster Asks
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On a Google Webmaster Hangout, Google’s John Mueller was asked if the author bio page was necessary in order to meet Google’s E-A-T guidelines. Mueller’s response downplayed the necessity of author bio pages as a technical issue and suggested it was a user experience issue. Authorship Signals The SEO industry believes that Google’s Quality Raters
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Google’s John Mueller on a Webmaster Hangouts answered a question about social bookmarking for links tactic. Google’s Mueller offered insight into how Google treats low quality link building. What is Social Bookmarking for Links? Social Bookmarking is a variation of forum spamming. The idea behind is that social media websites contain “authority” and that by
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In a Webmaster Hangout, Google’s John Mueller answered a question from a web publisher who asked what to do about a suspected negative SEO attack. The web publisher asked if he should wait until he received a manual action from Google. Here is the question: “My website gets hundreds of links that seem to be
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A web publisher asked Google’s John Mueller for feedback about the top 3 SEO factors Martin Splitt discussed in the first SEO Mythbusters video. Ranking Factors Vary by Query The reasons Google ranks a page is in my opinion particular to the search query and the intent behind it. Some phrases have multiple meanings, which
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election are seen in Washington Jonathan Ernst/Reuters It all began when an army of Russian trolls set its sights on America. The company was called the Internet Research Agency. Funded by Yevgeniy Prigozhin, an oligarch best known for holding Kremlin catering contracts,
