Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Many SEOs have tons and tons of sites in their Google Webmaster Tools accounts, either from new existing clients…

Many SEOs have tons and tons of sites in their Google Webmaster Tools accounts, either from new existing clients…

Google said the other day that they are now going to warn searchers before going to sites that trigger unwanted downloads…

Google’s John Mueller said in a Google+ hangout on Friday morning at the 13:45 mark that when you move a site from one place to another, Google will typically crawl faster to pick up on those URL changes in a more expedited manner…

A couple weeks ago we posted how Google’s John Mueller said he would avoid link building in general, but in that, he said you can enable people to easily link to you by offering a widget or something.
John was asked about widgets for link building…
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The other week, I reported that with Google News specifically, the recommendation is that your titles and H1s be consistent.
Now a Google Webmaster Help thread

It seems like Google may be testing a new label in the search results for slow sites. K Neeraj Kayastha posted a screen shot of the “Slow” label in a Google+ community and said he spotted this on his Android device searching in incognito mode…
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Jackson Lo posted a screenshot on Twitter that Google Webmaster Tools is notifying him to update a plugin that he uses on his WordPress site.

It says that Google is aware he is using an outdated version of Slider Revolution…

It is not uncommon for a webmaster to complain that his competitors are cheating and doing great in Google but all his white-hat efforts are not being rewarded by Google…

I personally learned a lot from the Google News Webmaster Hangout on Google+ from a couple weeks ago and I keep pulling out pieces of that knowledge for you guys.

The next thing I learned was that if you wanted to…

A fairly common question I see in the support forums is why is Google crawling my robots.txt file.

Today I spotted a thread from a webmaster in the Google Webmaster Help forums where Google was crawling the mobile version of the robots.txt file, whi…

Back in September 2011, Google News introduced the standout tag, a way for publishers to say these specific stories are really exceptional and Google News readers should really see it.
But did you know…

Google has said time and time again that you should not pay attention to the Google Toolbar PageRank score, but yet they have yet to zero-out any of the data, instead, they keep it as it was since the last accidental update back on December 6…
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Yesterday I reported on how dozens and dozens of webmasters noticed Google labeled their sites with the this site may be hacked label in the search results. It seems way too unusual for so many new webmasters to be complaining about it…

Google announced they are adding carousel based search results at the snippet level. So if you search for something and Google feels more content from that source is warranted, instead of showing more search results listed below…

Normally, Google’s crawlers named GoogleBot, is pretty well behaved. It normally is pretty good at making sure it doesn’t harm your site by crawling too fast or too much.

Yesterday Google News Stacie Chan and Google Webmaster Trends Analyst John Mueller hosted a Google News Publisher hangout on Google+, which was filled with great information…

Google has told us time and time again that using the site command in Google web search will not give you the accurate count of pages Google has indexed for your web site, that instead…

Two of our marketing and webmaster data sources from Google had issues last week. Google Webmaster Tools data stopped updating and a whole day disappeared in Google Analytics…

Imagine you wake up one morning and find your site that pays your mortgage, supports your family and the families of your employees have been hijacked by Chinese hackers. That would be scary.

That happened to ShadesDaddy.com, a site that sells sungla…