Official: how Google handles redirects
Google’s John Mueller posted an official explanation of how Google handles different URL redirects. Does this affect the rankings of your web pages? Do you have to change anything? What is a redirect? A...
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Google’s John Mueller: HTTP/2 has no impact on SEO
On his Google+ page, Google’s John Mueller made clear that HTTP/2 has no impact on SEO: “HTTP/2 has no impact on SEO. Search engine crawlers (even if they don’t support HTTP/2 yet, like Googlebot)...
New in SEOprofiler: more variables for scheduled reports
We have added more variables that you can use in the email messages that are sent with scheduled reports. You can use these variables You can use the following variables to customize the notification...
Official: links are an important factor in Google’s ranking algorithm
Last week, Google’s Andrey Lipattsev confirmed that links are Google’s most important ranking factor. The links that point to a website and the content of a website are the most important factors for Google,...
Official: Google’s top 3 ranking factors
In a Q&A session on YouTube, Google’s Andrey Lipattsev revealed Google’s most important ranking factors: Links that point to your site and website content (equally important) RankBrain (Google’s new machine learning technology) That’s good...
How to make your website more trustworthy
Trust is a factor in Google’s ranking algorithm. Reputable websites that can be trusted get better rankings than websites of dubious origin. Google does not want to show low quality websites in the search results....
Google is going to boost the mobile-friendly algorithm in May
In Google’s official blog, Google announced an update to the mobile-friendly algorithm in May: Today we’re announcing that beginning in May, we’ll start rolling out an update to mobile search results that increases the...
Google’s John Mueller: Google uses site authority signals to rank new pages
Does Google use site wide signals to determine the position of new web pages in the search results? Google’s John Mueller commented on this in a a Google+ hangout: For the most part, we...
Google’s John Mueller: how Google indexes JavaScript sites
On his Google+ page, Google’s John Mueller posted an updated on how Google indexes JavaScript sites and progressive web apps. Here are his recommendations: 1. Don’t cloak to Googlebot Use “feature detection” and “progressive...
How second-tier authority links can improve your Google rankings
High quality links that point to your website are crucial if you want to get high rankings on Google for competitive keywords. Links from reputable high authority sites have the highest influence on the...
Google’s John Mueller: HTML Sitemaps can help Google to understand your site
In a webmaster hangout, Google’s John Mueller said that HTML Sitemaps can help Google to index your web pages if your website has a complicated website structure: “It can definitely make sense to have...
Change required? Google does not show ads in the right sidebar any more.
Google no longer shows text ads in the right sidebar on the search results pages. This change applies to the desktop search results on Google.com and to the search results pages of Google search...
Google: AMP websites now live - do you have to react?
Google announced in its blog that AMP pages now appear in mobile search results. What is AMP, who uses it and do you have to adjust your web pages? What is AMP? The AMP...
