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Is WhoIs Information A Google Ranking Factor?
Upon registering a domain, the registrar gathers the user’s identifying information. However,  there is a domain privacy protection option that prevents the names, phone numbers, addresses, and other information from being published on WhoIs for everyone to see. Many SEOs believe that domain privacy is an important website SEO ranking factor. There are several good […]
Google Says Changing Website Hosting Location Impacts SEO
Website migration SEO sometimes involves changing a site’s hosting provider to a different one located elsewhere. But according to Google, doing so can have a big impact on website SEO rankings. This issue was covered in the most recent video instalment of the Ask Googlebot YouTube series. A person asked John Mueller, Google’s Search Advocate, […]
Google Discusses the Value of User Comments
Many SEOs wonder if allowing their readers to comment on their pages would be good for Google website SEO. Google revealed that these comments could actually improve website SEO, given that the site owners moderate them. Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller discussed this topic in the Google Search Central SEO office-hours hangout on 18 February. […]
Do Smaller Websites Stand a Chance in SEO?
A person recently asked Google’s John Mueller whether or not bigger companies have website SEO ranking advantages over small businesses. Mueller admitted that big companies are difficult to compete with, but Google does not favour any website in SEO based on the company’s size. In his answer, he explained how big websites have disadvantages that […]
Why Google Does Not Show FAQ Rich Results
Many site owners and SEOs use FAQ schema markup to increase their site’s visibility and improve website SEO rankings. However, some website SEO experts do not see their schema markup in the search results. John Mueller, Google’s Search Advocate, discussed three possible reasons why FAQ schema markup does not generate rich snippets in search results. […]
Mueller Gives Tips on Building an International Presence Online
Google’s John Mueller recently discussed whether or not one should create international sections within an existing website or build a new site entirely to improve their website SEO ranking and search visibility. An international website SEO expert also shared their opinion on this topic and gave insights on what the best course of action is. […]
Google Gives Tips on Site Migrations
Google has recently published a video on website migration in SEO. Here, John Mueller discussed how Google deals with website migrations and how long they take. According to the discussion, the migrations are difficult, and a good website SEO strategy is required before executing them. The video started by asking if restructuring a site's URLs […]
IndexNow Co-Shares URLs Between Search Engines
Site owners and publishers work on website SEO optimisation with the hopes of getting their content crawled and indexed by search engines faster. With the IndexNow protocol, Microsoft’s team said that search engines now co-share submitted URLs, saving many website SEO experts time and effort. This means that the URLs submitted to Microsoft Bing using […]
Mueller Explains How Google Assesses Overall Site Quality
In an SEO Office Hours hangout, a person asked Google’s John Mueller about their website’s poor translation issues, wondering if it could cause quality problems for the site as a whole. Mueller’s response to the question provides insights into how just one section could impact the entire website and its rankings, as well as how […]
Mueller Says Not All Sites Need to Be an Authority to Rank
Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller explained that not all websites should be regarded as authorities to get a high website SEO ranking in the search results. He discussed this topic with website SEO experts in the Google Search Central SEO office-hours hangout recorded on 10 December. Mueller was given a follow-up question by an SEO, […]
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