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71 Google-Ordained SEO Guidelines You May Have Overlooked

71 Google Official Statements & Guidelines for better SEO. Important instructions that no Webmaster should miss out on - Straight from the horse's mouth

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71 Google-Ordained SEO Guidelines You May Have Overlooked

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  1. 71 SEO Guidelinesstated by Google, Officially Compiled by CUEBLOCKS.COM

  2. Do not block CSS and JS files in your Website’s Robots.txt file Allow: /*.js$Allow: /*.css$

  3. Google ignores special characters in the meta title tag of the website ™ and © in Title Tags Not Needed

  4. W3C Code validation is not really a deciding factor for SERPs = Not necessary but suggested

  5. Google has confirmed that one can use multiple H1 tags on a page

  6. Don’t use URL Fragments cueblocks.com/blog/seo-guidelines-from-google/#url-fragments =

  7. The Panda update is also about Discerning the Website Architecture

  8. As of now AMP is not a ranking factor but it improves the overall website speed

  9. One should use rel-nofollow while linking to bad websites

  10. It is not advisable to build backlinks from Google Docs/Excel sheets

  11. Not Found URLs are not always due to a Webmaster’s mistake. Google Bots can sometimes find unwanted URLs

  12. Mobile First Index is still being tested and is not live yet

  13. There is no single method or formula for gaining top search engines positions

  14. Nofollow tag may help manage the crawl budget of large websites

  15. Google takes manual action against spamming the Rich Snippets

  16. A Website Penalty can be seen by a Webmaster only and not by any third party tools or software

  17. There is no such thing as the Google Sandbox Google Sandbox

  18. Submit URLs you want to index in Sitemaps

  19. A link will be considered as Paid if we are giving Charity or Donation for link exchange

  20. Changing URL Structures and Switching to HTTPs URLs are completely different

  21. Google allows using different markup formats for structured data

  22. Google ignores HTML lang attribute completely

  23. Content within Tabs will be given full SEO weightage

  24. Fast Crawl Rate setting won’t help with SEO rankings

  25. Webmasters can remove links from the Disavow file

  26. Domain Authority or Score is not a signal in Google’s algorithms

  27. No big SEO advantage with HTTP/2

  28. No need to have an XML sitemap for AMP pages

  29. International and Multilingual links are not considered as spam

  30. Site Command will show rich snippets if Webmaster has implemented them correctly

  31. Google does not support rel-canonical tag for Images GIF JPEG rel=’canonical’ PNG

  32. Google considers singular and plural words as different keywords

  33. No Penalty for linking out to external websites

  34. Upload Disavow File on Canonical version of the website

  35. Product Pricing is not a ranking factor as per Google

  36. Backlinks shown in Search Console are crawled in Google’s index

  37. Hreflang won’t improve search engine rankings of the website

  38. Using Underscores or Dashes in the website URLs does not pose any SEO threats

  39. No way you can redirect a penalized site safely

  40. Different Google algorithms impact a website differently

  41. Mention Alt tags in the same language as that of the content

  42. Google does not provide any SEO Certifications to Webmasters Google Certified Webmaster

  43. There is only a slight SEO advantage in having keywords in the URLs

  44. Outbound links are not considered as a ranking factor

  45. Google does not index images as frequently as it does web pages

  46. Title Tags are not a critical SEO ranking factor for Google

  47. Using Special Characters and Decimal points in the URL is not a very SEO-friendly practice

  48. There is no SEO advantage of using capital letters in the URLs

  49. Links Disavow file size has a limit of 2MB Disavow File 2 MB ……………………………………….. …………………….. ………………………….. ………………. ………...

  50. There is no direct correlation between crawl frequency and higher rankings

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