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Google’s John Mueller was asked by an SEO named Promothash Boruah when is it safe to delete tag and/or category pages on your web site. John responded that you can remove those pages with no real impact on your organic search traffic if those pages have “almost no traffic or no visibility of those pages.” […]

Google published its Google News transparency policy listing its principles behind these policies. Google said these policies help determine what is eligible to appear on Google News and other News surfaces, and they help ensure that Google is elevating content from trusted, authoritative sources. Keep in mind, Google never announced the Google News and Discover

In April, Google updated how the Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) metric within the core web vitals was calculated. In short, Google made the metric more beneficial to most sites, so your CLS scores may go up by themselves on June 1st in the Google Search Console reports. On June 1st, Google posted “The CLS metrics

Rajan Patel, VP of Engineering at Google where he leads teams working on Lens, AR, and Consumer Shopping, told me that Google Image Search and Google Lens are coming “closer together soon.” This was after I failed at using a reverse image search feature on Google Images. The other day, when I was trying to

Here is a recent photo from outside the Google Dublin, Ireland office of a brown Nissan Figaro. It looks cool and shiny and I like brown but I had no idea what car this was so I asked on Twitter, that was after trying the reverse image search feature on Google Images, which failed me.

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