Google: You Can’t Redirect A Penalty To An Existing Site But Maybe To A Site Move
We’ve covered the topic of penalty redirection several times in these three different stories – at least. But it was brought back up again in the Friday Google+ hangout and I was going to skip it…
Google Webmaster Tools International Targeting Reports A Month Behind
We reported this morning that Google’s search query reports in Webmaster Tools is returning to normal and the data is being populated now.
But the international targeting report is almost 30-days delayed now. The first time I saw this reported was in…
Google: The Submit To Index Feature Is For Critical Cases
In Google Webmaster Tools, there is an option to fetch and render as GoogleBot would crawl your pages. After the page has been fetched…
Google’s John Mueller: I’d Avoid Link Building In General
In a Google+ live hangout with Google’s John Mueller on last Friday morning, John answered the question, “is link building in anyway way good…
Google Has Issues Crawling Recursive Redirects
Ever see a web page that when you visit it, it just keeps redirecting back to itself…
Google: More Search Query Historical Data Coming This Year?
Back in 2013, we thought we would get one-years worth of search query data within Google Webmaster Tools report, but that never happened. Instead…
Google Webmaster Tools Data Stalled On February 7th
Normally, the data in Google Webmaster Tools is about two-days delayed. But if you check your data in Google Webmaster Tools data today, you will see the last time Google updated the data was last Saturday…
Google: Duplicate Titles Is Not A Panda Search Quality Issue
Google’s John Mueller said in a Google+ webmaster live hangout this morning that having duplicate title tags and meta descriptions would not lead to a search quality issue specifically around the Panda algorithm…
See The New Search Impact Reports In Google Webmaster Tools Over Here
As we covered, Google promised to test a new alpha version of the search queries report and that has now been released to the first set of alpha/beta testers this morning.
Google said this new report will be changing drastically over the testing period…
Where’s My Sitelinks Search Box? Blame Google’s Algorithms.
Google’s Sitelinks Search box launched in September of last year and webmasters are still scratching their heads asking how can my site show the search box in the Google search results…
Google: We Don’t Have Whitelists For The Penguin & Panda Algorithms
In March 2011, Matt Cutts of Google told us Google does indeed have exception lists or what you call whitelists, but a week or so before that…
Google’s John Mueller When He Isn’t Allowed To Answer Questions
There are always extreme outliers in virtually any algorithm but when that outlier hits your site and your web site drops in the Google rankings, what do you do…
Wildcard Google Suggest Worked For Five Years
Rand Fishkin learned for the first time this week that you can use Google Suggest with wildcard spots within them. He posted about it on Google+ saying:
I somehow never knew…
Google Strongly Discourages meta-refresh-type Redirects
Every few years, it is important to cover some basic topics and we’ve covered it in 2008 and 2011, so now in 2015…
Google Webmaster Tools Emails For App Deep Linking Impressions & Clicks
A few weeks ago, Google began notifying webmasters who have deployed app deep linking about app deep linking issues and informing them how to fix it.
Now Google is sending webmasters stats
Significant Google Search Algorithm Update Yesterday
It looks like there is an algorithm update taking place at Google search now – it is hard to say if it is Panda, Penguin or something unrelated – right now…
Google Launches A Mortgage Calculator, Take That Publishers!
Truth is, we knew this was coming, they were testing a mortgage calculator for a few months now but yesterday, it went live to all…
Google Answers Now Showing Action Links For Third-Party Web Sites
In November, we documented how Google began sprucing up their Google Answers boxes with answer action links. But the catch was, it only worked for Google specific content. I said…
Google Reconsideration Requests Documentation Adds Step-By-Step Instructions, Examples & More
Google announced quietly on Google+ that they’ve revamped the reconsideration request documentation in the Google Webmaster help center, to make it easier for those to understand and use…
Does Your Mobile Site Pass The Google Redirect Test?
Obviously, mobile is important and it is just as important to configure it properly so that GoogleBot and search engines understand what is mobile and what is not…