Recent discussions on social media indicates there is considerable disagreement in how to use Heading (H1, H2) elements. Despite guidance from Google about the use of headings the SEO industry still can’t agree about how to use headings. An informal poll on Twitter with nearly 2,000 votes shows over half of SEOs don’t know what…
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Speed Link Building: Google Says It Doesn’t Count Links Like That But…
Google was asked if building links too fast, let’s call it speed link building, is a bad thing. If you get too many links, too fast, is that something that can count against you in Google Search. John Mueller of Google said on Twitter “We don’t count links like that.” The question was “is it possible to…
Hey Google, Do You Have To Optimize Your Whole Website For One Page To Rank Well?
John Mueller of Google was asked another interesting question in this Friday’s SEO hangout. The question was, do you need to optimize your whole website if you only care to have one URL, one page, on that whole website to rank well? The answer was not necessarily but it does help the one page to…
How Long it Takes to Re-rank a Site with Fixed Quality Issues
Google’s John Mueller discussed how long it takes for Google to re-crawl and re-rank a site when significant changes to web page quality have been made. In a Google SEO Office Hours hangout, someone asked John Mueller about unstable rankings in the Google search results pages (SERPs). He related that the site in question was fluctuating from page…