Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

We’ve covered negative SEO a lot here, the practice of harming your competitors in the search results so that you can go up in the rankings because they go down in the rankings…

In a Google+ webmaster hangout from a couple weeks ago, Google’s John Mueller was at the GooglePlex and had a hangout with two of his colleagues.

Josh asked at 26 minutes and 3 seconds in, why does Google use links for ranking at the level they do…..

Google just announced on Google+ that their spider/crawler, GoogleBot, now supports TLS 1.2. TLS is Transport Layer Security…

In this mornings Google Webmaster Hangout with John Mueller on Google+, one question asked was about why Panda has not really updated since October. Truth is, I am not if that is true, Google may have pushed out smaller Panda refreshes since…

The folks at the Local Search Forum are discussing an article named BBB Accreditation: Boring But Bumps Your Local SEO.

They tend to all agree that having a BBB accreditation is a no brainer for local SEO purposes…

Google has done domain wide free host manual actions before, where they will go ahead and penalize the whole free host and all the subdomains on that host. Google has also offered advice on how free hosts can try to stay penalty free…

I always find it interesting when Google responds to specific technical issues on web sites…

Forever, Google said to treat Google’s crawlers, GoogleBot, as you would any searcher or user accessing your site from the United States. But now this is going to change because Google may crawl your site from IP addresses outside of the US and also ma…

Folks are still wondering about the status of the Google Penguin updates. As you may remember, there has not been much activity around it since early December after they put it on a holiday break…

As you may remember, Google has started a Google News Publisher Newsletter.

The first one was a couple weeks ago and really had a nice new technical tip for us around images in Google news…

Google is releasing a new Search Queries Report tool in Google Webmaster Tools and they are offering an Alpha preview of the tool to a select number of beta/alpha testers.

If you want to test out the new Search Queries report…

Over two years ago, Google started showing a message in the snippet for those who blocked GoogleBot from crawling their site, to explain to the searcher why the description is not showing up.

Now…

Google’s mobile usability report within Google Webmaster Tools is currently running a two-week delay.

If you check out your report, you will see the last updated date was on January 13…

Over the past 36 hours, I’ve been seeing sporadic reports from webmasters that their link data within Google Webmaster Tools is either now being under reported or coming up as “unavailable…

Over the past few months, there have been several complaints in the Google News Help forums from Google News publishers complaining that Google is not sending them as much traffic as they once did.

Google News has a method of submitting a feed to them of just your “Editors’ Picks.” Stories you think are exceptional and deserve more attention on Google News should be ticked off as Editors Picks…

Google launched a mobile testing tool a few months back and since then, Google has been educating webmasters around how the tool works and what prevents it from working.

Such as blocking or cloaking GoogleBot can set it off on the wrong path…
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Remember the Google News publisher who was furious that his Google News site was removed from Google because it copied news stories from other sites…

Remember the Google News publisher who was furious that his Google News site was removed from Google because it copied news stories from other sites…

The folks at the Local Search Forums are chatting about a pattern they’ve been seeing for the past several months around closed local listings.

When a business is marked as closed on Google Maps…