Google’s John Mueller has confirmed that link rot is normal website maintenance. I will go one step further and say that you should be dealing with it on a regular basis. There is no confirmation or indication that dealing with link rot will improve search engine rankings. However, I personally believe that dealing with link rot on a regular basis will improve the overall quality of your website. And, quality websites generally get more traffic from Google. [Read more…]

Google Search Console is reporting that pages from Microsoft’s Bing search engine are links back to websites. Today, in my regular review of the links to my website in Google Search Console, I found several suspicious links. I found about 10 Bit.ly links listed. This is normal, as others will use URL shorteners in social media to link to a website. However, investigating these links, I found that several of these are actually just the Bing.com search results pages. [Read more…]

You may recall me posting just the other day that Google’s search analytics data is one week behind. Usually, the data is two days behind. But, even after about a week, the search analytics data is now still about one week behind from being reported in Google Search Console. [Read more…]

Google’s Search Analytics data, available to website owners in Google Search Console, is now delayed one week. Under normal circumstances, the search query data is delayed only two days. However, right now the keywords used to find your website is now delayed one week. And Google reps so far, when questioned about this, aren’t providing much detail on the reason why. [Read more…]

Starting October 2017, Google Chrome (version 62) will show a “NOT SECURE” warning when users enter text in a form on an HTTP page, and for all HTTP pages in Incognito mode. If your website is not HTTPs, and you have not moved your website to HTTPs from HTTP, then your website’s visitors will start to see this warning. [Read more…]

A bug in the Google My Business Posts feature, recently released to all GMB users last month, doesn’t allow businesses to use an HTTPs URL when adding a button and link to their post. As you know I’ve been critical of Google My Business and certain features, such as website URLs easily being overwritten. [Read more…]