Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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…

Webmasters, publishers and SEOs love rich snippets, they give you more visibility in the search results and give something for SEOs to charge their clients for implementing (sorry for the joke, really tired)…

The black hat and gray SEO communities are buzzing about Google’s latest efforts to target PBNs, Private Blog Networks.

Over the past couple days, Google has reportedly went after many PBNs that are being used to manipulate their rankings…

Google has been trying to heavily promote App Indexing, we covered it here several times, it is basically a way for you to tell Google about content within an app and have it potentially be indexed and rank in Google’s search results…

Yesterday, Google announced a feature they’ve been testing for a few weeks, Structured Snippets.
Structured Snippets is a form of knowledge graph that incorporates facts into individual result snippets in Web search results. It looks like this:

WebP is a relativly new image format that provides lossless and lossy compression for images on the web. Google is an advocate for it since it helps speed up browsing and such. But do WebP images get indexed and ranked by Google Images…

Buffer’s Courtney Seiter posted their August content report documenting an issue when they migrated from HTTP to HTTPS this past month.

Initially…

A couple weeks ago, Google announced changes to the search within search box in the Google search results. One of those changes was the ability to direct the query done on Google, directly to the publishers site by adding some schema.

Now…

I am sure you have seen it at least a 100 times, a person complaining their site doesn’t rank well in Google…

On August 12th, I migrated this site, which is not a small site, from HTTP to HTTPS and honestly, the migration has not been bad at all…

Onur Ã-zcan informed me on Twitter that Google has supposedly slapped several large Turkish news sites for content spam and keyword stuffing on their sites…