Google announced a new Google Shopping and Google Merchant Center policy update where sites that do not meet certain professional and editorial standards would have their accounts suspended. They will be notified with a “Website needs improvement” policy status in their Merchant Center accounts. Google said it “requires that all merchants meet certain professional and

The other week, Google posted a fresh blog post named prevent portions of your site from being abused by spam. The advice was not too far off from the advice the company published in 2017. So why publish this new advice again? I asked John Mueller of Google if we can expect an increase in

Lidia Infante asked Google’s John Mueller an excellent question on international SEO. She asked why do you think each country and language site needs a different approach to success in SEO? Is it about Google’s understanding of languages or more about user behavior changes with search? Here is her question “In my experience, each country/language

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that many folks ask for more detailed 404/410 information within Google Search Console. So while Google may not provide those details today, he said “I wouldn’t count it out forever.” It is just Google has other priorities and maybe 404 reporting is not one of them? Right now, the

Google’s John Mueller told one website owner on Twitter., and I quote, “I would not assume traffic changes are indicative of technical issues – it’s easy to spend a lot of time “fixing” technical things when the problem is elsewhere.” That is not a great thing to hear. That means, John probably took a look

Today is Memorial Day in the United States and to honor the day, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft Bing all have special logos or themes on their home page. Google also has a special inside page for its search results with an animated top right section with American flags in the grassy hills. Google has historically

Here is a photo of the GooglePlex building that shows the Google signage with a Google branded dragon on it. I am not sure why Google put a dragon on its logo, I suspect it has to do with June being Pride month but I am not sure why a dragon. Maybe one of you

Google seems to be adding a setting to Google My Business to allow businesses to hide their phone numbers from showing up in Google Maps and Google Search’s local results. An updated Google help document says you can now “hide the phone number on your Business Profile.” This was spotted by Stefan Somborac who posted

Jeffery Jose, Google Product Manager, not only announced that the page experience update is coming to desktop at Google I/O but also announced that “Google Search will prefetch websites built using signed exchanges.” He said this was announced earlier this year but can make a huge difference with your core web vitals scores. This should