Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Mobile sites are incredibly important these days but some SEOs and webmasters are concerned that it will cause duplicate content issues.

Going responsive or the same URL, for the most part, removes the duplicate content worries completely…

Exactly a week ago I migrated this site to HTTPS and truth is, it is almost impossible to check rankings and traffic for a site like this when making these changes…

Yesterday morning, @gfiorelli1 notified me of that Google has “launched a massive amount of links manual penalization emails” specifically in Spain…

As you may have heard, last week, many SEOs, including Dan Petrovic, Steve Webb and George Zlatin received extortion emails from an alleged SEO claiming they will perform negative SEO on their site if they do not pay up $1,500.

The email starts off re…

A WebmasterWorld thread has a webmaster who was kind enough and not embarrassed enough to share he let a domain name of his expire, which resulted in his site being removed from Google and then a month of really bad rankings. He shared his story so th…

It has been about a week since Google announced their new HTTPS ranking signal and the security SSL certificate companies have begun promoting this fact to prospective customers…

Jennifer Slegg posted an interesting case of a manual action being revoked and then the same day reappearing and then being revoked again. Interestingly enough…

As you know, I am the guinea pig here and I am migrating two sites from HTTP to HTTPS, this site and my corporate site. Both use Feedburner, which was acquired by Google in 2007, but there is constant fear that Google will kill off…

As I reported earlier, the change of address tool does not support HTTP to HTTPS migrations and John Mueller of Google said “just use normal 301s.”
But how important is the change of address tool when migrating to a new domain name?

Google has quietly updated their Webmaster Guidelines, the little or no original content section. They added a example reference there for “low-quality guest blog posts.” I would not be surprised to see manual actions for guest blogging, not link speci…

We have just migrated this site, the Search Engine Roundtable…

There are hundreds of webmasters complaining and worried that their structured data is messed up…

Yesterday we reported how webmasters notices were being sent to those who manage sites that have faulty mobile redirects.

Tons and tons of webmasters received them and some were scratching their heads as to why. They thought everything was set up prop…

After Google launched their HTTPS ranking signal some savvy SEOs and webmasters noticed SSL errors spewing from Google…

It seems like Google Penguin has been on some sort of vacation, since it has now been over 10 months since the last refresh.

The sad part is, those who have spent the past 10 months trying to “fix” their sites, are in a penalty box just waiting…
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In June, Google began showing a notice of faulty redirects within the Google search results page that told the searchers that if they click on that search results from their smartphone, it may take them to the site’s home page instead of the page they …

Google has now added colored syntax to their fetch as Googlebot tool within Google Webmaster Tools.

If you try it out by going to Google Webmaster Tools and then fetch a URL on your site, Google’s results will now show you the HTML code in colored syn…

As we learn more about the Google HTTPS algorithm I want to keep you posted.

Three new tidbits came out on the topic through yesterday’s Google webmaster hangout with Google’s John Mueller on Google+…

As you may remember, Google starting giving HTTPS a ranking boost last week and that morning, Thursday August 7th, at around 10am EST, I migrated http://www.rustybrick.com/ to https://www.rustybrick.com/.

I promised to keep you posted on the status…..

The month of July was absolutely insane in terms of Google webmaster topics, just a lot covered, while the specific announcements, although some big…