Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Google launched a new version of the news box within the web search results the other week named In The News. The major difference here is that it sources not just approved Google News publishers but any site it finds relevant, which is really upsetti…

I know Penguin 3.0 is now rolling out but I want that to settle a bit before I poll you on Penguin.

I want to now poll you on Panda 4.1, which began rolling out on September 25th…

Yesterday in the hangout where John Mueller felt the Penguin 3.0 roll out was complete, but it wasn’t, John had a special guest from the Google News team, Stacie.

Stacie is the Google rep in the Google News forum…

As you may remember, Google is laying hints that mobile UX is coming as a ranking factor. That being the case, Googlers are now talking a lot about mobile UX (user experience) issues they see often…

Google announced that if you want to do content discovery right by Google, do not just use an XML sitemap file but also submit an RSS/Atom feeds.

Google’s Alkis Evlogimenos wrote, “for optimal crawling…

On Stephen Colbert last week, he ranted on TV about Google attacking him by showing incorrect information about his height in the Google knowledge graph box. This is a must watch:

Like the past several years, including last year…

Google has updated their change of address tool, the first major update since it launched back in 2009.
The new features make it easier for novices to go through the process of using the tool correctly.

It is now two years since Google launched their link disavow tool and the questions about it do not stop…

Google’s John Mueller admitted on Twitter that for user generated content (UGC) sites, spam is a hard issue and problem.

John wrote…

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…