Every year, John Mueller, Senior Search Analyst / Search Relations team lead at Google makes a significant effort to help respond to SEO-related questions on Christmas. He has done this since at least 2007, so sixteen-years and counting, and has done it again this Christmas. Here are the previous years of John offering support on … Read more
Blog / SEO Strategy / Insights from Google’s John Mueller: Key Lessons for SEOs Now, you’ve probably already reached out to other well-known SEO experts to address all sorts of website optimization issues. And you’d be hard-pressed not to have come across John Mueller’s various quotes along the way. Being one of Google’s top voices, … Read more
A discussion on Reddit involving Google Search Advocate John Mueller offers guidance on optimizing website performance and highlights the challenges of improving scores on Google’s PageSpeed Insights (PSI) tool. In a recent thread, a user asked for guidance after significantly reducing image and video file sizes did not lead to better PSI scores as expected. … Read more
Imagine this scenario: You’ve meticulously fine-tuned your website’s SEO strategy, leaving no stone unturned. From website design to user experience and from metadata to high-quality content, you have covered everything in your quest to rank higher. Yet, when you search for your prized creation on Google, it’s nowhere to be found, lost among a sea … Read more
Google Search Advocate John Mueller recently affirmed the ongoing importance of technical SEO, countering claims that its significance is dwindling. His statement comes in response to a comment on X, formerly Twitter, claiming that technical SEO is becoming less critical. The Debate over the Importance of Technical SEO Mueller commented on X, responding to Yiğit … Read more
Ever wonder at what point you need to worry that there are too many of the same keywords on the page? Well, John Mueller from Google said it is not having it ten or twenty times but rather three hundred to five hundred or more… When it comes to keyword stuffing, you really need to … Read more
John Mueller, a Search Advocate at Google, was asked when you should use the link disavow too. He said on Twitter, “Essentially — if you weren’t buying links, don’t disavow.” So don’t disavow unless you were buying links in the history of your website. Here are those tweets: Essentially — if you weren’t buying links, … Read more
Google’s John Mueller has another good one-liner about SEO and Google ranking. He said on Mastodon, “No ranking factor compensates missing relevance, or missing user interest.” He explained, “it’s easy to forget that a site doesn’t just ‘rank’ on its own, it ranks for what it’s relevant for.” The context around these comments is from … Read more
Recently, there was a discussion on Twitter about the validity of using custom elements in the <head> section of web pages. Custom elements are part of the Web Components specifications, allowing developers to create HTML elements tailored to their needs. Using custom tags, developers can build reusable and self-contained HTML elements that function independently from … Read more
In today’s digital world, where personal information is so easily accessible online, protecting your privacy is crucial. Recently a Reddit user wanted to remove personal information from Google Search. Their experience and subsequent discussion with Google’s John Mueller highlight the complex process and policies around Google’s content removal tools. In addition to looking at Mueller’s … Read more
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