Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Sometimes you read these threads in the Google help forums and just want to give up and here is one case. A Google News Help thread has a publisher at boxingdispatch.com that is complaining they received an email from Google News about being removed a…

This morning, Google posted on Google+ a request for webmasters to submit their ideas and suggestions on how to improve Google Web Search and Google Webmaster Tools.
Google said that

Yesterday, Google sent out their first Google News Publisher newsletter and it has some nice information, but one big tidbit on the algorithm side that is very important for Google News publishers…

As you know, Google will demote mobile sites that have issues displaying on mobile devices. Google may expand that even more so to not just display issues but mobile usability issues as well.
Glenn Gabe shared…

Google’s John Mueller said in a Google+ hangout yesterday that the Google Webmaster Tools team is working on updating both the layouts and the text of the messages sent to webmasters through Google Webmaster Tools…

Google’s John Mueller announced on Google+ that the Google PageSpeed Insights API, which has been around since October 2013, has received a bit of an update yesterday…

SEOs have been using CSS positioning for years and years as a way to get the more important content positioned in the source code above the more boiler plate content, such as headers, navigation and so on.

But now with the way Google fully renders you…

I spend a lot of time here documenting what Google spokespeople are saying in terms of SEO and webmaster advice. Often, I don’t spend the time going into all of the alternatives around the statement…

Google’s Webmaster team on Google+ posted a poll asking which configuration are you using for your mobile friendly web site? Is it responsive, dynamic serving, separate desktop and mobile URLs or are you not mobile friendly yet…

In a video hangout with Google’s John Mueller, John said that even without using the disavow file or removing bad links, it is possible to recover from a Penguin penalty (aka algorithm). Let me say that again… If you are hit by a Penguin issue on you…

Google’s disavow tool is still a hot topic amongst SEOs and will be as long as Google is at war on links.

Marie Haynes asked Google’s John Mueller a question on Twitter about the tool that I’ve never seen asked. Does the case of your words in the dis…

Google’s John Mueller posted on Google+ a heads up to those sites implementing hreflang for international support, that they must implement the rel=canonical properly or it will be as if none of the mark up is there…

Google is providing mobile optimization tips all this week on their Google+ channel and as expected, most of them are pretty basic stuff…

When Google Panda 4.1 touched down, it appeared that one of the sites negatively impacted by it, was this one.

On December 30th…

Stacie Chan from the Google News team posted in a Google News Help thread implying that the Google News ranking algorithm uses over 200 ranking factors for ranking…

The Google Webmaster team announced on Google+ that they will be offering advice, tips and optimization techniques around mobile design options.

Google said:

There are three common configurations of #mobilefriendly sites: Responsive web design, dynam…

Last week, we reported that John Mueller of Google said the site command is nothing to worry about, this is despite Google’s Matt Cutts telling us five years ago that the site command is ordered and ranked in some logic…

During the busiest holiday shopping season, Google was making ongoing updates to the Penguin algorithm. There is no disputing that, Google confirmed it.

But since the second week of December…

Often you’ll see the SEO forums light up a bit before an algorithm shift, where SEOs say, wow – GoogleBot activity on my web site is unusually high. This leads people to think an algorithm update may be coming soon. Sometimes they are right, but ofte…

Since Google gives a tiny ranking boost for HTTPS sites, many sites have begun switching over.

But if done incorrectly…