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Google Says No Need to Change Order of Heading Tags

2018-05-09T23:24:00.001-07:00

The question came up in today’s Google webmaster workplace hours with John Mueller regarding whether or not there are any ranking problems with pages that utilize h tags in such some way that the tag won't precede other tags.

Here is what John said:

"It doesn’t really matter. We use the headings to understand the context of the content on the page a little bit better and for that, we don’t need like a strict order of the heading tags.

Sometimes you have multiple h1, sometimes you have, I don’t know, the order is slightly different because of your template or something on your page and that’s perfectly fine."

So if you've got misordered H tags on a page, there's no real reason to form any changes, as long as you make sure the most vital header is residing among the H1 tags on the page.

Things You Must Know About Mobile First Indexing in Google

2018-05-03T23:26:00.003-07:00

The mobile era has already started. Here's what you need to know about mobile first indexing.

Google will still have one index
A lot of sites won't be affected
Those affected will want to heed Google's best practices
Search Console is being used for notifications
Crawl rates from the Smartphone Googlebot will increase
Mobile-first indexing doesn't affect ranking
Desktop content will continue to be indexed
Mobile-first indexing extends to the SERPs and Google cache

Read here in detail Mobile First Indexing

Optimizing For Mobile in 2017: Expert SEO Tips

2017-06-21T06:23:00.002-07:00

Mobile search has become a part of today’s reality, but there are still some blind spots that can make optimizing for mobile a bit stressful. To relieve this pressure, we invited the marketing masterminds Eric Enge, Cindy Krum, Roy Hinkis, and Bryson Meunier to discuss mobile SEO. Read on to learn:

What you should be doing right now to make your site rank higher on mobile SERPs
Whether to take advantage of AMP and what it does to your site speed.
How you should change your keyword strategy to accommodate voice search
Whether a responsive website design is better than an adaptive one.

Plus, our guest experts shared their thoughts on the future of mobile and reveal what the featured snippet of tomorrow looks like.
Although Google has already begun experimenting with mobile-first indexing, according to Gary Illyes’s speech at SMX West, this update doesn’t have a specific launch date yet. But still, the mobile search traffic share is growing. So, what should people be doing right now to attract as much mobile traffic as possible? What should their short-term SEO concerns be? Find out below.

Run the Mobile Usability report

Bryson Meunier: "One of the easiest things to do is to focus on the mobile usability issues in Google Search Console. When we focused on those at Vivid Seats, we actually increased our mobile search traffic by 82 percent and all we did was look at the issues in GSC and fix them — so things like making sure that the font sizes are legible and making sure that you configure the viewport. And Google has outlined all of these things that you really need to focus on. It sounds very basic, but it can have a really big impact."

Read full post here at Optimizing For Mobile in 2017: Expert SEO Tips

Gary Illyes Says Ranking Do Not Place During Indexing

2017-03-16T10:19:00.001-07:00

DYK people often think ranking takes place during indexing, but the index is only a storage. Ranking actually happens during serving.

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Wake Up Developers: If You Aren‘t Thinking About SEO, Quit!

2016-10-25T10:38:00.000-07:00

There is a very interesting post of Philip Kushmaro on SEMrush about Developers who don't know much about SEO and don't develop website as Google or any other search engine recommends for. There are some major developing mistakes for which he warned them for it.

Major Developing Mistakes, You Shouldn't Do:

Don’t Make CSS Mistakes You Will Regret

Respect the Mobile Bar: UI/UX

Mobile Matters!

There is More Than One (Re)direction

Canonical redirects
301 Redirects
htaccess

Images, video and JS/CSS - Site Speed

Servers

CDNs

Small but mighty – URL structure

If you are still not aware about these SEO factors of website, it's a wake up call for you.

Read his full post here Developers: If You Aren‘t Thinking SEO, Quit!

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Roll out An Improvement To Your Website Page? Don't Worry, We will Find It.

2015-04-04T03:07:00.000-07:00

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A string at Google Webmaster Help gatherings has a website admin worried that Google isn't permitting him to physically utilize the submit to list as a part of the get in render instrument in Google Webmaster Tools for all the URLs on his webpage. As you know, there is a farthest point to how regularly you can utilize that highlight every day/every month.

Because of the website admins concern, Google's John Mueller said on the string:

You don't need to submit pages when they're changed -- we re-crawl the web automatically to pick those changes up (you could also use sitemaps & feeds if you wanted to point out individual changed pages).

That is correct, that is the thing that Google Bot does, it is about searching out and expending new and changed substance and site pages. So in the event that you truly need to assist it for countless, use Sitemaps.

Source: Seroundtable

Google Will Slow to Crawl Your Website If Page Load Takes More Than 2 Seconds

2015-03-30T07:50:00.000-07:00

All SEOs realize that an occupied server or moderate server will bring about Google Bot abating how they creep your site and we additionally realize that to a great degree moderate destinations/pages can be adversely affected in positioning admirably in the Google indexed lists.

Google's John Mueller got out a particular burden time as being too ease back for Google Bot to slither the site at its typical rate. John Mueller said in a Google Webmaster Help Forum.

He particularly got out "more than 2 seconds" to load a solitary URL on this site, which is bringing about GoogleBot "seriously restricting the quantity of URLs" it will slither on that site.

Presently, John is not saying anything about the Page Speed Algorithm, pretty much the slithering of the site.

We frequently don't hear particular numbers from Google, in the same way as this.

Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.

Google Authorship has been dead now

2014-09-02T03:51:00.000-07:00

Google drops authorship from search results. When a user share a content with his G+ profile or use "markup" code, user's name and image show with that search results. Now Google drops those authorship from search results. No more image and name will show with content in Google search results.

For more: http://searchengineland.com/google-authorship-dead-author-rank-202254

Google's Matt Cutts New Video Release for Link Spamming and Disavow Tool

2013-12-10T06:48:00.001-08:00

Earlier, Google's Matt Cutts releases a video for link spamming and disavow. He was telling that if we should not submit single link in disavow tool. If there is any problem from that link then we need to collect our all bad links data and then submit it in disavow. He also said, if we should also submit main domain name in disavow then it will be good. After crawling these links Google will remove these sites from your baclink.

Video: Google Matt Cutts Hints At Upcoming SEO Changes At PubCon

2013-10-26T05:40:00.001-07:00

Video: Google Matt Cutts Hints At Upcoming SEO Changes At PubCon

Again A Softer Google Panda Update Happening

2013-07-20T02:11:00.001-07:00

Now webmasters are talking about a new softer Google Panda Algorithm update. Some webmasters are saying that it's confirmed. There is some changes in Google Analytic. As we know Google will not confirm Panda updates anymore. We have to keep focus on our website analytic data to know if there is any update or not. I'm still trying to collect some information on this, when I will get, tell you here.

Detect Google Algorithm Weather Report With Moz's MozCast

2013-07-06T22:47:00.000-07:00

Are you worry for how to keep eye on daily changes in Google Algorithm? Now no need to worry for this. You can easily see the changes in Google Algorithm with the help of MOZ's MozCast weather report. It tells us daily weather report of Google Algo update. You can easily review the past changes in Algo and track them.

It's a very good tool and mostly webmaster used it to see changes in Google Algo. It was totally different tool in itself. There is nothing to do from your end just open the site and you will see how much Google's Search Engine is reflecting in term of ranking of website. After reviewing this tool I'm sure you are not going to use any tool to see changes in Google Algorithm. You will love it because It's simple and show you what's happening currently. So what are you thinking go and use it.

Big News: Need Google's Keyword Tool, You Must Need An Google Adwords Account

2013-07-05T02:37:00.001-07:00

Are you looking for Google's keyword tool? Its will be no more here because Google is going replace this tool via Google Keyword Planner Tool and for this you should have an account to access it. So what do you say and what are you planning for now..??

Google Keyword Planner Tool

Google is Showing Ten Sitelinks on Searching of Domain Name

2013-06-29T02:27:00.000-07:00

Now recently Google is showing ten site links on domain search but when we search any type of brand name then it doesn't show. We don't know what he wants to do. We never know It is testing or something else but It is showing. Looking for webmasters comment on this testing or update. Don't know It is good for seo purpose or not.

Ten Site links by Google

My Search Traffic Changes Since My Link Penalty Was Revoked

2013-04-18T08:19:00.001-07:00

My Search Traffic Changes Since My Link Penalty Was Revoked

Google Has Won: I've No Followed My Links

2013-04-15T03:36:00.001-07:00

Google Has Won: I've No Followed My Links

What Happens To My Google Account When I Die? Inactive Account Manager

2013-04-15T03:35:00.005-07:00

What Happens To My Google Account When I Die? Inactive Account Manager

Google Wants Your Content If It Is Not Spam

2013-04-15T03:35:00.003-07:00

Google Wants Your Content If It Is Not Spam

The New Google Place Dashboard Causing Headaches For International SEOs

2013-04-15T03:35:00.001-07:00

The New Google Place Dashboard Causing Headaches For International SEOs

Google: The Top 5 Mistakes When Implementing Canonical

2013-04-15T03:34:00.001-07:00

Google: The Top 5 Mistakes When Implementing Canonical

Is There any Google Update Brewing?

2013-04-08T07:35:00.000-07:00

Some webmasters are talking about up and down in terms of traffic. Is there really a Google Update..??? We are not sure about that there is some type of Panda, Penguin or some link update. But still, something is going on in Google.

Several SEO's and webmasters also noticed some major changes after friday.All webmasters are still trying to find which type of updated it is..???? There is no confirmation of any Google Update.

New Words from Google's Matt Cutts on Upcoming Penguin, Panda & Link Networks Updates During SMX

2013-03-13T06:18:00.001-07:00

Google's search spam head has announced in SMX, The Search Police some new updates with Google's Penguin and Panda algorithms and also new link networks target in this 2013.

Matt said that there will be lots of talk on significant penguin updates in this 2013. The last Penguin update we have on record was Penguin 3 in October 2012. Before that, we had Penguin 2 in May 2012 and the initial release in April.

So, expect a major Penguin release that may send ripples through the SEO industry this year.

Matt also announced a new upcoming Panda update on coming friday or monday and also they are targeting new link networks of site in this 2013.

Source: http://searchengineland.com/googles-matt-cutts-on-upcoming-penguin-panda-link-networks-updates-151273

Google recommends focusing on a single website not multiple sites

2012-11-16T09:12:00.002-08:00

Google's John Mueller responded to a question in Google Webmaster Help.

He wrote:

"I'd recommend focusing on a single website, instead of this collection of sites that you have now. In particular, I'd make sure that your single website is of the highest quality possible, that it contains unique (not rewritten / spun / reprocessed) content, content that's relevant to the users of your site and compelling to them. Don't keep this collection of low-quality sites, it's really much better overall to focus on making a single fantastic site instead."

Report: Google Search Share Slips Below 90% In The UK In October Month

2012-11-08T00:56:00.000-08:00

Only 89.33% of internet searches in the UK were conducted on Google sites last month,according to Experian Hitwise. It’s the first time in the last five years that Google search market share in the UK has ever dipped below 90%.

While Google’s share dropped, other players — especially Microsoft’s Bing — picked up market share. Bing grew to encompass 4.71% of all searches, which was a 2012 peak for the engine. Experian Hitwise suspects that October’s launch of Windows 8 — which uses Bing as the default search engine — may have been a factor in Bing’s share increase.

Read More: http://searchengineland.com/study-google-search-share-slips-below-90-in-the-uk-in-october-139051

Google: Panda Refresh Rolling Out

2012-11-06T20:44:00.001-08:00

A Googler (@google) tweeted at 0:50 AM on Wed, Nov 07, 2012: Panda data refresh rolling out. ~1.1% of English queries noticeably affected. More context: http://t.co/QqlpqTmk (https://twitter.com/google/status/265896345259360256) Get the official Twitter app at https://twitter.com/download