Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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…

Every few years, it is important to cover some basic topics and we’ve covered it in 2008 and 2011, so now in 2015…

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

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…