Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Google is now sending webmasters notifications of the new Sitelinks search box functionality that we covered here not just two or three times but this would be the forth…

The other day, Google was caught indexing itself, which turned out to be a bug they fixed and stopped indexing themselves.

Now…

Just a friendly reminder, when buying a new or used domain, make sure to check the archives, wayback machine, and any other data such as links, webmaster tools…

About ten days ago, Google revamped their search within a site feature and renamed it Sitelinks Search. They also gave webmasters a way to communicate that they have an internal search that should be used when using the Sitelinks search.

Some savvy webmasters were inspecting the HTML markup behind the last Google Webmaster Blog post and noticed the markup used on the posted by John Mueller hyperlink had a bit of extra code for rel=agent…

For many SEOs and Webmasters, this is probably not news, but I like to document things like this in any case.

The disavow file, the file you use to tell Google these links are not links I want pointing to my site, is a file that Google “continuously” …

We know webmasters, especially those impacted by Penguin 2.1 are getting really anxious. It has been 11 months and 6 days since the last complex to refresh Penguin and it is taking them time.
Google confirmed a few newish items around Penguin and what …

This is probably old but I’ve never heard it before… If your news web site is rejected from Google News, you cannot resubmit it for inclusion again for a 60-day period.

A Google News Help thread has Google’s Stacie C. saying that in the thread…
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Just a few months ago, Google revamped Google Webmaster Academy as a resource for new webmasters to get acquainted with Google.

Now, Google is bringing that content to 22 other languages.

Google announced this on Google+ saying:

Today…

Google is pretty clear about not wanting to have search results listed in their search results, they have been since at least 2007. So why is Google indexing and ranking their own search results…

We know Google demotes non mobile friendly web sites in smartphone search results. But for some reason, there is a debate if Google gives a ranking boost to responsive design sites over other mobile formatted sites that deploy Google’s best practices….

Back in June, Google updated their site moving documentation drastically but webmasters questioned why Google specifically recommended using 302 redirects to communicate separate smartphone URLs from desktop URLs. Well that has changed…

In response to our story on Google confirming a Penguin refresh is needed to recover from Penguin, Google’s John Mueller added more context to his answer in the Google Webmaster Help thread.
In short, he made a few important points…

The last in the series of Google Reconsideration tips, all of stuff you all know…

For the readers here, this is probably very obvious, but @Marie_Haynes tells me, that it is not so obvious and it is “an issue many people argue about.” You cannot recover from a Penguin penalty (algorithm) if Google did not run the algorithm again.
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Google’s Matt Cutts, who is currently on a long vacation, has migrated his personal blog at mattcutts.com/blog from HTTP to HTTPS sometime over the past few days.

The interesting part is that he used a 302, a temporary, redirect…

A WebmasterWorld thread has some savvy webmasters and SEOs asking if Google has changed how they handle the domain clustering in the search results.

Domain clustering is when Google will determine if they want to show one or more search results on a s…

We all know that Google tells us to serve a 503 error code when your server and web site is having temporary issues. Like a period of time where the server is getting way too much traffic for it to handle…

More of the same old same old with tips from Google on reconsideration requests this week – but that was expected…

Like I said before, these Google Reconsideration posts on Google+ by Google offers information that is really not new. So the item I am covering today we noted back in October 2013.