Google’s John Mueller answered a Reddit question about how to lower a website’s spam score. His answer reflected an important insight about third-party spam scores and their relation to how Google ranks websites. What’s A Spam Score? A spam score is the opinion of a third-party tool that reviews data like inbound links and on … 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
In a recent episode of ‘Ask Googlebot,’ John Mueller, a Search Advocate at Google, explains the company’s stance on scores from third-party SEO tools. Mueller stated that Google doesn’t consider scores about a website’s authority or spamminess from external SEO tools when deciding where to rank a site in search results. Google’s algorithms and assessments … Read more
Today’s Ask An SEO question comes from Sommer, who asks: What might be factors contributing to high on-page SEO scores but low domain authority? Today, we will dive into a topic that many website owners find puzzling: the relationship between on-page SEO scores and domain authority. As you know, on-page SEO is about enhancing individual … Read more
John Mueller answered a question in the SEO Office-hours session about why the core web vitals scores keep changing even though the web pages themselves have not changed. There are two kinds of core web vitals scores: Field DataThese are the core web vitals scores that are recorded from actual visitors visiting a website in … Read more
