Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

If you try to access your search queries report within Google Webmaster Tools right now, you would be out of luck.

You’d see a message that reads…

Google has suggested that sometimes it makes sense to start fresh and start a new web site if you dug yourself into such a severe penalty.

Google’s John Mueller hinted to it again this weekend in a Google Webmaster Help thread…

We know that Google penalties may follow you when you 301 or create a new site when your old site was burned to the ground. We also know that Google tried to prevent this from a negative SEO standpoint. Google also recommends you start fresh in some …

Google launched the awesome manual actions viewer just about 11 months ago and it is really an awesome step in visibility around penalties (yes we are waiting for an automated actions viewer)…

Google has slapped two more link networks in Poland late last night.

Google posted details about how reconsideration requests work on the Google Poland blog. And Google’s Karolina Kruszynska confirmed with me this morning that Google went after two…

Last week, we reported that Google dropped the authorship image from the search results for good. But we also documented how the Google Structured Data Testing Tool still showed the old format…

Pedro Dias, a former Google employee who worked on the Search Quality and Webspam team for years, said on Twitter that Google is less likely to trust a link after it is modified…

When it comes to multilingual sites, I am not that knowledgable but it is important as more and more companies and web sites need to go multilingual…

A couple of weeks ago, we told you Google is working on a new href lang webmaster feature that Google would not disclose. In fact, Google was asking for beta testers to sign non-disclosure agreements, if they wanted to participate in the beta.

Well……

They often say, learning new things is way easier than unlearning old things.

A WebmasterWorld thread has an old SEO who hasn’t been in the game for five or more years, asking to be caught up quickly on what has changed.

The answer is…

Google has published a video of the HTTPS Everywhere presentation on YouTube. The presentation was give by Pierre Far from the Google Webmaster team and Ilya Grigorik from the Google Developer team.

The presentation was awesome because it was convers…

A thread at Google Webmaster Help asks a question that goes unanswered for the most part, “Negative SEO. How can we let the Webmaster Team know?”

How do you let Google know when you think you’ve been hit by negative SEO…

Can you redirect a penalty to a new or different domain name? Let’s say site A has a bad link penalty, either manual action or algorithmic issue. And you or a competitor decide to use a 301 redirect from site A to a site without a penalty (i.e. site B)…

As you may remember, Google Panda 4.0 had a major negative impact on many press release sites including the largest one, PR Newswire. In response, PR Newswire issued a press release about them cracking down on “spammers” by removing and “taking action”…

The Google Sandbox was a term coined back in 2004 when SEOs and webmaster began noticing their new sites were not ranking as quickly as they use to. In short, your new site got put into a sandbox, where you waited…

Yesterday, I broke the news at Search Engine Land that Google has decided to drop the images and circle counts from the authorship snippets in the Google search results.
Google’s John Mueller posted…

Yesterday, at Google I/O, Google announced that their app indexing solution is now available to everyone without requiring approval…

Yesterday we covered some SEO theories around blocking JavaScript & CSS triggering Panda 4.0 issues. I didn’t honestly believe there was a relation, based on the example provided and very few other sites reporting the same effects but now we have a response from a Googler…

CNBC published a story on a 17 year old web site that was nailed in the latest Panda update, Panda 4.0. The story is named Google’s secretive updates leave small sites scrambling…

Joost published a blog post showing how some of the sites he hit by Google Panda 4.0 and in one case, unblocking the CSS & JavaScript resulted in the site returning to its normal rankings.

Joost wrote…