Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Here are more Google HTTPS tidbits from my SMX coverage last week…

Despite most not seeing many changes after migrating from HTTP to HTTPS for the Google HTTPS ranking boost, still webmasters want to do it.

If you are going to do it, you need to do it right…

As I reported at Search Engine Land, Google may add mobile UX as a ranking signal in the upcoming months.
Here is the statement Google sent me around my questions on mobile UX and ranking in Google…

The disavow tool is a very popular SEO/webmaster product from Google these days but don’t be mistaken, humans at Google are likely never going to look at your disavow file manually. Google says that generally they are processed completely automaticall…

Google made a significant change to the news articles that show up within the web search results. Those news articles no longer have to come from a human-approved Google News source – they can come from anywhere…

Did you know that the Google Webmaster Tools report for crawl errors, specifically the 404, page not found report…

Back in July, Google began issuing warnings to mobile searchers when a search results displayed lead to a site that uses flash.
Google’s Pierre Far announced today on Google+ that this is now rolling out globally…

Yesterday we covered how Google Poland is warning SEOs about their behavior there and harming their clients by not adhering to the Google Webmaster Guidelines…

Last week we reported on a tweet from a Google Poland spam fighter about Polish SEOs harming their clients too often.

Well, as promised, this morning they posted the blog post on the Google Poland blog and thanks to Google Translate…

I’ve been obsessively covering the Google HTTPS ranking boost and I have some more nuggets to give you.

You know that Google told us that invalid HTTPS pages still get the ranking boost…

The last Google webmaster report was fairly slow compared to what we had this past month. This past month we had a change to the Panda algorithm that may or may not have hit this site.

We have some serious reports of major Google flux going on right …

One of Google’s spam fighters, Karolina KruszyÅ”ska, who focuses on the Poland search market…

There is nothing worse than knowing Google is having a tough time accessing your content unintentionally. Well, truth is, if you robots.txt or nofollow your site out of Google by accident, I don’t feel bad for you. But if your server flakes out on you…

Last Thursday, September 25th, Google announced that they began rolling out Panda 4.1 – a revised algorithm to improve their detection of Panda like signals and ultimately aim at helping smaller sites do better with the algorithm…

The day or so after Google announced there was a ranking benefit from HTTPS (tiny signal they said), I migrated my corporate site over from HTTP to HTTPS. I did so…

Google is now frequently conducting live webmaster hangouts with normally one Googler and then nine other webmasters on the Google Webmaster Google+ page.

Google’s John Mueller does a ton of them and he said he is ready to schedule a bunch more but wa…

Google’s John Mueller said in a video hangout 22 minutes and 21 seconds in that there is no magical SEO advantage when switching from HTTP to HTTPS.

But didn’t Google tell us that HTTPS is a ranking signal…

Google’s John Mueller has an awesome line in a response to a Google Webmaster Help thread question about broken links.

John wrote, “The web changes…

Back in June we asked you guys to fill out a poll asking if you’ve tried negative SEO and if it worked.

We have over 300 responses to our poll and I wanted to share the results with you…

Google is sending out a new form of notifications via Google Webmaster Tools, one you may get after you verify a new web site in Google Webmaster Tools for the first time…