Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Google is offering very very basic tips on reconsideration requests this week, calling it the week of GoogleRecon. Yesterday’s tip was pretty basic also, if you get slapped with a manual action…

Google’s site command, i.e. site:www.domain.com, is known by savvy webmasters and SEOs as not a great measurement of the total pages Google has indexed of your site…

Starting yesterday, Google announced on Google+ they will be offering tips on the Google+ Webmaster page tips around reconsideration requests, they are hashtagging this, #GoogleRecon…

A WebmasterWorld thread has a savvy webmaster/SEO noticing that GoogleBot is not bothering to crawl and indexed the pre-rendered web page, instead, it is running all the JavaScript and then crawling/indexing the final rendered page…

Last night, Google’s John Mueller was tasked to announce on his personal Google+ account that Google has dropped support for authorship, completely.

Yes, completely. They simply removed it from their search results interface and from behind the scene…

As you know, Google is giving a tiny ranking boost to HTTPS URLs.
But I was under the impression the HTTPS URLs must be really secure and that broken/invalid SSL certificates and content mismatch errors would invalidate the ranking boost. I was wrong!
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Google’s John Mueller was having fun this morning when he posted on Google+ “Time for HTTP 418. Every site should have one.”

The HTTP 418 server status code was an April Fools Joke back in 1998…

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

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…

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…

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…