Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Here is a fun story at the Google Webmaster Help of a webmaster who said his rankings dropped the day after he got in a fight with his AdWords representative.

As you may know, Google has said time and time again…

On Twitter, Google’s Matt Cutts confirmed that Google uses a form of author rank or author specific authority in the in-depth articles ranking formula…

Over two years ago, Google released a new feature to show concert dates in the search results. Yesterday, Google announced that when possible, Google will pull those dates “directly from that artist’s official website when they add structured data mar…

Over the past week or two there has been some people suggesting that Google does not review manually every single reconsideration request…

Yesterday, Google’s head spam man, Matt Cutts, issued a stern warning to link spammers in Italy and Spain. This warning will likely be followed up with some unnatural link notifications and ranking penalties within the week…

Daniel from Miami asked Matt Cutts of Google a fun question, which Matt turned around and answered almost a year later in a video response…

Google does indeed look at the other sites a webmaster or business owner operates when one of their sites gets a manual action – at least, some of the times they do…

A hot topic recently is when should you start fresh after a penalty and when should you try to recover.

Google’s John Mueller said it is “never a decision to make lightly” but there may be times where you need to go the fresh route…

SEOs obsess about the smallest things, even how long is too long for a URL.

A Google Webmaster Help thread has SEOs and webmasters asking how long can they go for a URL. Google actually answered the question…

You know that often, Google Webmaster Tools shows an image preview of your site’s home page on the dashboard listing view of your site profiles within Google Webmaster Tools.

The other day we covered that you do not need to and likely shouldn’t disavow off topic links.

Today…

As more and more Google penalties become more transparent, recovering from them seems to get harder. Even when you do recover…

Yesterday, Google’s Matt Cutts posted a detailed video trying to define how Google’s manual spam fighters determines what is a paid link versus what is not.

Now, 99% of the time…

What would you pay to get specific actionable advice from Google on how to remove your unnatural link penalty…

A Google Webmaster Help thread has Google’s John Mueller responding to webmaster concern over off topic links.

Off topic links are when sites that are unrelated to you are linking to your site…

Matt Cutts, Google’s head spam guy, posted on Twitter that he wants you to submit reports and examples of scraper sites or URLs that are outranking the original source.

He made a Google Doc form where you can submit the report over here. The form asks…

I spotted a thread at Black Hat World asking why have we not seen a case where a former Google employee who worked in search quality sell their knowledge or publish the secret sauce on what it would take to rank well quickly and get rich fast…
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There is an excellent video from Google’s Matt Cutts on the question Should I focus on clarity or jargon when writing content…

Monday we reported how SlashFilm.com & movie blogs saw a huge decline in traffic around February 14th and how Google’s Matt Cutts said he will look into it.

Well he did and their traffic is back…

Typically when Matt Cutts of Google posts a video, there is a yes or no, or he is leaning strongly one way or another in his answer. But this time…