Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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…

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 …