Maile Ohye has left Google
The latest Google employee departure is Maile Ohye, someone the SEO community has grown to love over the years.
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SearchCap: Google fun facts, how to hire SEOs & SEO analysis
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google’s latest search feature serves up fun facts about animals, plants, fruits & vegetablesFeb 15, 2017 by Amy Gesenhues Adding the words “fun facts” to queries for animals, plants, fruits or […]
Google releases new video on how to hire an SEO consultant
Thinking of hiring an SEO firm or consultant? Watch this video from Google's Maile Ohye on what questions to ask and what to look for during that hiring process.
Google may pick desktop over AMP page for the mobile-first index
Google's mobile-first index may index your desktop version over AMP when there is no mobile version of your website.
Decoding GoogleSpeak
There's often a lot of confusion surrounding quotes made by Google representatives, but there doesn't have to be. Columnist Jenny Halasz discusses how to effectively analyze and interpret such statements.
Ask The SEOs At #SMX Advanced
Contributor Jenny Halasz recaps highlights from the "Ask The SEOs" session at SMX Advanced 2015, where veteran SEOs answered questions about search engine optimization.
SearchCap: Google Panda 4.1 Continues, Reddit “In The News” & Local Business Videos
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google: Panda 4.1 Still Rolling Out Over the weekend, there was a tremendous amount of chatter within the SEO community, including discussion forums, social media and other channels. There were rumors […]
Google Releases Video Series On Taking Your Local Business Online
Google’s Maile Ohye, a well-known personality in the SEO space, has published six-videos adding up to about 30 minutes, containing advice on bringing your local business online. Maile said this is the same advice that Googlers would give “our friends and family” and now they are sharing it with everyone. In the first video, the […]
Up-Close @ SMX West: Experts Weigh In On Mobile SEO Best Practices
What’s your best mobile SEO solution? Responsive design? A mobile dedicated site? An app? Four mobile SEO pros gave their expert insights on how to create successful mobile SEO strategies during the “Best Practices in Mobile SEO” panel yesterday at SMX West. Moderated by Search Engine Land’s contributing editor Greg Sterling, the session included presentations […]
Google Offers Advice On Faceted Navigation & Infinite Scroll Web Pages
Google has offered up two very technical blog posts on SEO topics covering infinite scroll and faceted navigation search engine friendly techniques. Infinite Scroll Web Pages Infinite scroll is what you see on a lot of newer style web sites such as Pinterest, Google Image search results, many landing pages with a lot of products […]
The Definitive Guide To Technical Mobile SEO
At SMX Advanced, I moderated a panel about technical SEO. Google’s Maile Ohye spoke about SEO best practices for technical implementation of mobile sites based on how Google crawls, indexed, and ranks mobile content and presents it to searchers on mobile devices. She also talked about Google’s recent announcement that the mobile user experience is […]
Google Launches Help Center For Hacked Sites
Google has just launched a help center for hacked sites, complete with step-by-step instructions and videos that outline each part of the process. The videos feature Maile Ohye, Developer Programs Tech Lead at Google (and her Googler colleagues), who told me “we wanted to connect our capability to detect and alert site owners of their hacked […]
Using Canonical & Hreflang Tags To Launch New Markets Quickly
Last week, someone accused me of being too technical when describing geo-targeting settings — it followed a conversation where I was told that one of my discussions was not “advanced” enough! So, I apologise in advance, as this post is going to be too technical for some and not for others! It’s also a little […]
Google “Reveals Index Secrets”: Charts Indexing of Your Site Over Time
Yesterday, Google webmaster tools launched Index Status (available under Health) that charts the number of indexed pages for your site over the last year. Total Indexed Count Google says that this count is accurate (unlike the site: search operator) and is post-canonicalization. In other words, if your site includes a lot of duplicate URLs (due […]
SEO In 10 Minutes & Many New Google Webmaster Videos
Maile Ohye, Developer Programs Tech Lead at Google, posted a video on the Google Webmaster Blog about how to learn the “essential” SEO techniques for your web site. It is targeted specifically at sites with under 50 pages or so, that want to rank for their company name and related keywords, and want to be […]
SMX Advanced 2012: Pagination & Canonicalization For The Pros
Pagination & Canonicalization For The Pros Presentations from SMX Advanced, June 2012 Using the pagination tag with optional parameters, sort orders, and filters. Are there still reasons to use robots.txt or noindex? Can a canonical tag really replace a 301? How do you keep your IIS=based site from infinite redirect loops when you canonicalize default […]
Implementing Pagination Attributes Correctly For Google
Google’s latest blog post provides details and a video from Maile Ohye about how they handle the pagination attributes within a page’s source code. You can use these attributes to indicate pages in a series (such as a multi-page article or set of product listings), which enables Google to cluster the pages into a single entity […]
SMX East 2011: Pagination & SEO
Pagination & SEO Presentations from SMX East – NYC, NY, September 2011 What’s the best way to implement complex, paginated sites for effective indexing and ranking? It may not be using conventional wisdom, despite what Google has said to the contrary. Come hear our panelists discuss controversial, but undeniably effective ways to use the rel=canonical […]
Google Provides New Options for Paginated Content
At SMX Advanced earlier this year, a hot topic was the use of the rel=”canonical” attribute in conjunction with pagination. Maile Ohye of Google noted that the rel=”canonical” attribute was not intended to cluster multiple pages (articles, product lists, etc.) to page one of that series (although it can be used to cluster multiple pages […]
SMX Advanced 2011 Video: The Really Complicated Technical SEO Infrastructure Issues
The Really Complicated Technical SEO Infrastructure Issues Presentations from SMX Advanced, June 2011 It’s one thing to know you should use 301s, but how do you really implement that in an IIS 5.0 environment? Or as part of a server migration that includes resetting cookies for a new domain? Is Google’s crawlable AJAX standard the […]
Google Adds URL Parameter Options to Google Webmaster Tools
In 2009, Google launched the parameter handling feature of Google webmaster tools, which enabled site owners to specify the parameters on their site that were optional vs. required. A year later, they improved this feature by providing an option for a default value. Google says that they’ve seen a positive impact from the usage of those […]
SMX West 2011 Slide Video: Your Toughest Technical SEO Questions Answered
Your Toughest Technical SEO Questions Answered Presentations from SMX West, March 2011 No powerpoint here! This session is all about Q&A to solve the specific technical issues you’re having. Bring your toughest questions! Topics will likely include URL canonicalization (pagination, faceted navigation, breadcrumbs, parameters, analytics tracking, IIS URL issues, redirects, localized URLs…), aggregation and duplication […]
Lessons Learned at SMX West: Google’s Panda Update, White Hat Cloaking & Link Building
An amazing amount of great information came out of SMX West this week. Below is a summary of some of what I found to be the most actionable and useful. Google’s Own Words About the Farmer/Panda Update Google’s Matt Cutts said that while the change isn’t 100% perfect, searcher feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. He […]
SMX East 2010 Slide Video: Actionable Metrics and Diagnostics
Actionable Metrics and Diagnostics Presentations from SMX East, October 2010 We have hundreds of data points to track how the search engines and visitors are accessing our sites, but what’s really actionable and what’s not worth spending time on? How can you best use data to diagnose issues and make improvements to your site? In […]
SES Chicago 2010: The Full Recap
SES Chicago 2010 is now over and I wanted to share the live blog coverage I found from the event. Here is the full three days linked to below. Avinash Kaushik Delivers SEM Advice, WebProNews Avinash, Analytics & Making Love To Keywords That Matter, AIM Clear Blog Live from SES Chicago: "Search: Where to Next?", […]
Move Over PageRank, Meet Webmaster Happiness Rank
Move over PageRank and meet Webmaster Happiness Rank. That’s another metric that Google maintains, it turns out. Speaking at SES Chicago today, Senior Developer Programs Engineer, Google, Maile Ohye said Google has a metric to measure webmaster happiness. Every week, Google’s webmaster trends analysts team gets together to talk about how the webmaster’s are reacting […]
Google Webmaster Tools Launches Improved Options for Handling URL Parameters
At SMX East earlier this week, Maile Ohye of Google showed new parameter handling features in Google Webmaster Tools. Today, those features are available to everyone. Google first introduced parameter handling about a year ago. When I wrote about the launch, I described how optional parameters in URLs could cause canonicalization problems and gave a […]
Ignite SMX: Give Them 5 Minutes, They’ll Give You DateRank, Circus Life & More!
Earlier this year at our SMX search engine marketing conference, we hosted a special “all-search” version of Ignite. Got 5 minutes? Then watch as speakers cover how PageRank compares to “DateRank,” how well Google itself does SEO, why never to give money to search start-ups trying to beat Google in a garage and much more. […]
Google’s New Indexing Infrastructure ‘Caffeine’ Now Live
What you need to know about Google's indexing system.
SMX West 2010 Video: The Need for Speed
The Need for Speed Google has sent strong signals that the download speed of web pages matters, not only for the best conversion rates but perhaps as a factor for ranking in the SERPs in the future. In addition, speed can have an impact on how many of your pages get indexed. Here’s how to […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 28, 2010
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Starting To Manage Its Cash Mountain More Aggressively Google now has roughly $26 billion in cash on hand. That mountain of money has apparently been getting very conservative returns according […]
Defining Download Time: Web Searchers Vs. Search Engines
“Download time” and “speed” are terms that often confuse SEO professionals, web designers/developers, information architects and usability professionals alike because of various interpretations. A number of items influence download time, including but not limited to:
It’s Official: Google’s Proposal For Crawling AJAX URLs is Live
Today at SMX West, Maile Ohye from Google confirmed that Google is indeed now crawling AJAX pages that use the standard proposed last Fall. The documentation is live on Google Code and you can also take a look at my recent article about how to implement the standard and its pros and cons. Maile mentioned […]
The Latest On Google News Sitemaps
Back in November 2009, Google News announced they were “in the midst of an exciting transition period” that included a change to the News Sitemap Protocol. News publishers have through April 2010 to modify their News Sitemap to accommodate the new format. What’s so exciting and transitional? I asked Google, thinking that they were changing […]
Google I/O: New Advances In The Searchability of JavaScript and Flash, But Is It Enough?
This week at Google I/O, Google talked a lot about the evolution of the technological capabilities of the web. HTML 5 is ushering in new era of browser-based development and applications. Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, kicked things off with, “My message to you is that this is the beginning of the real win of cloud […]
Google, Yahoo & Microsoft Unite On “Canonical Tag” To Reduce Duplicate Content Clutter
The web is full of duplicate content. Search engines try to index and display the original or “canonical” version. Searchers only want to see one version in results. And site owners worry that if search engines find multiple versions of a page, their link credit will be diluted and they’ll lose ranking. Today, Google, Yahoo […]
Google Webmaster Help Group: Version 2
Today, Google relaunched several of their help forums, moving them from Google Groups to a new help-specific platform. The English and Polish Google Webmaster Help group have made the move to this new format, with the other languages soon to follow. Below, more details about how this change will benefit site owners and a bit […]
Do The Google Webmaster Support Reps Really Work?
Maile posted a Google blog post named A day in the life of webmaster support. The blog post basically takes you through a typical day at Google for a Google Webmaster Trends Analysts. Here is the video — it is about 7 minutes long and is fun to watch:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 3, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Defines IP Delivery, Geolocation, & Cloaking
Maile Ohye at the Google Webmaster Central Blog has “defined” what Google considers to be IP delivery, geolocation, and cloaking. On the geolocation front, Google recommends you treat “Googlebot as you would a typical user from a similar location.” So, if Googlebot’s IP is coming from California, then serve up the same page you would […]