Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Gary Illyes from Google posted on Google+ that he sees many large sites lose a ton of their pages in the Google index for misusing 403 status codes when they should be using 503s…

I think I have a good solution for the anger between publishers and Google over Google Answers. Offer action links within the search results answer box that publishers can select and manage within Google Webmaster Tools.

Since 2012, Google has been testing mobile-friendly labels in the search results. Most recently, Google ramped up those tests by testing mobile icons, not mobile friendly icons and text based mobile friendly labels…

So Google’s Penguin 3.0 roll out came and went (well, we are not 100% confident it is done rolling out). In any event…

There is a small but important bug with the Google Structured Data Testing Tool where if you try to use it, there is no button to click to see the structured data.

Here is a screen shot of what it looks like:

Notice…

A few months ago, Google acknowledged that render your full page as a normal user would and this is something webmasters picked up on…

Stacie from the Google News team posted in the Google News Help forum that Google News publishers now have a new way to submit their Google News Editors Pick feed to the Google News team. They can now submit it via the Google News Publisher Center……

Since Google gave us the manual action viewer within Webmaster Tools, a tool to see what manual penalties you have on your site…

You never ever want a disgruntled employee, customer or competitor or really anyone who should not have access to your Webmaster Tools account to gain access to your Webmaster Tools account…

With Panda 4.1 rolled out over the past month or so, more people have more Panda questions.

Typically…

For months, Google has been promising us a solution for them to run Penguin faster so webmasters and SEOs would not have to wait over a year for another refresh.

I, like many of you, were under the impression that the next release would be that soluti…

An SEO asked on Twitter if listing the same URL in the disavow link file will hurt or what happens? Does listing it twice negate it? Does listing it twice show more importance? Or does Google ignore duplicate listings…

A webmaster asked Google why would Google show more indexed URLs than submitted URLs in the Google Webmaster Tools Sitemaps reporting section…

There is no doubt that the perception in the industry is that negative SEO is a problem.

So much so, that in our last poll, only 11% thought negative SEO doesn’t work. Now that we have “white hat” clients requesting negative SEO and and most SEOs …

This should come to you as no surprise… Google has added a new Google Webmaster Tools report for showing webmasters mobile usability issues that they pick up…

In August, Google announced a new feature for Google News Publishers named Google News Publisher Center. Initially, it was only available for US English publishers…

In July, Google began showing flash warnings to mobile users in the US English search results. That was supposedly expanded globally earlier this month, when Google’s Pierre Far announced this on his personal Google+ page…

The other day, Jack Stonehouse asked me on Twitter why I was using a 307 redirect from the HTTP to HTTPS version of this site. The answer was, I was not. But why was he getting a 307 redirect and not a 301 redirect…

Remember we reported that during all the Penguin and Panda madness, Google said they will be pushing out a DMCA Algorithm update…

Google announced they made a change to their Webmaster Guidelines specifically telling webmasters, what they’ve been saying for years, but more strongly the past few months. Do not block us from crawling your CSS or JavaScript!
Google’s Pierre Far wrote, “Disallowing crawling of Javascript or CSS files in your siteâs robots.txt directly harms how well our algorithms render and index your content and can result in suboptimal rankings.”