Google’s "mark as fixed" doesn’t speed up reprocessing. Proper redirects and 404s are essential for site health. Reprocessing site changes can take time, especially for larger sites. Google's John ...

Many people know to be wary of scams, malware and phishing links hidden in emails and text messages. But what about the sponsored links at the top of a Google search? Do you have to be cautious of ...

The use of one type of redirect over another does not impact PageRank significantly, according to the latest video from Google Search Central. Search Advocate John Mueller also debunked the widespread ...

The update has three prongs, which Google is calling expired domain abuse, scaled content abuse, and site reputation abuse. Site reputation abuse is similar, except rather than taking an entire domain ...

Seeing the “too many redirects” page pop up isn’t just a browser error, it’s also a silent SEO killer. Every time a URL sends a visitor or search engine crawler to another URL automatically—called a ...

Gary Illyes from Google said on Mastodon this morning that you should 301 redirect URLs when there is a "close-to 1:1 match" for that URL. We know that, but what he added was this is even true for ...

In a nutshell: If you've ever been redirected to a strange-looking Q&A website appearing to promote cryptocurrency or other blockchain technologies, it could be part of an ad-click-pumping scam. Since ...

We know that Google for several years has been telling us we need to have redirects in place for a year or so for Google to have the site moves stick. But how many months is too few, too little? John ...

Hackers are conducting a massive black hat search engine optimization (SEO) campaign by compromising almost 15,000 websites to redirect visitors to fake Q&A discussion forums. The attacks were first ...