I analyzed the past 6 months of Googlebot’s crawling activity on my website, specifically looking to see how often AMP pages, versus blog posts, versus pages are being crawled by Google on my site. What I found was pretty interesting. [Read more…]

Google’s Search Console appears to be having another possible data issue. Google Search Console is reporting no indexed pages in the Indexed Pages report. One particular website that I have verified in Google Search Console does, in fact, have pages indexed in the Google search results. However, viewing Google Search Console, they show that no pages are indexed in the Google search results. [Read more…]

Can you submit a web page URL to Google from someone else’s website, that’s not indexed yet, and get that page indexed quickly? Well, Marie Haynes asked that question on Twitter and thus this blog post was born. [Read more…]

If you’re a website owner, you have the opportunity to verify your website with Google and get access to the Google Search Console. Previously called Google Webmaster Tools, the GSC’s goal is to provide helpful information about your website. In most cases, you can get helpful insights into areas of your website that could be improved. Sometimes the information Google provides in GSC is helpful–and sometimes it’s not. Let’s look at an example of when Google has screwed up in GSC, providing us with inaccurate (or misleading information). Once example is the HTML improvements. [Read more…]

Update: April 20, 2017: As of April 20, 2017, this feature is fixed. I have verified this by using the tool to submit a URL to Google and getting it indexed fairly quickly (within minutes).

The Submit URL to Google feature, that I wrote about a while back, is broken today. Turns out that if you try to submit a URL to Google, you’ll get an error message that says “Oops! Something went wrong, please try again.” as shown below: [Read more…]