Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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…

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…

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…

In Google Webmaster Tools, there is an option to fetch and render as GoogleBot would crawl your pages. After the page has been fetched…

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…

Ever see a web page that when you visit it, it just keeps redirecting back to itself…

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…

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’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…

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…

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…

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…

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…