Google Penalties Might Follow You To A New Domain Name
So we know that if you have a penalty on your site and you move your site to a new domain and redirect the URLs to that new domain…
Google Targets Poland In Latest Link Network Penalty
Yesterday, Matt Cutts, Google’s head spam fighter, announced on Twitter that Google has targeted two link networks that are popular in Poland and used often by Polish SEOs and webmasters…
/Film & Other Movie Blogs Drop In Google, Matt Cutts Promises To Investigate
A few days ago Peter Sciretta, the Owner/Editor of slashfilm.com, a movie blog…
Google: Don’t Worry About Small Number Of Related Sites
A Google Webmaster Help thread has one webmaster who has three web sites on different domains but the sites are very similar. There is one main company site with “two sites dedicated to two lines of specific product…
3 Years Ago Today, SEO Changed Forever With Google’s Panda Algorithm
Today is a day no SEO and many webmasters will never forget, it is the day Google launched their Panda algorithm. On February 24, 2011, three years ago today…
Google: We May Show Your Redirected URLs In The Search Results
aakk9999, the moderator at the Google forum at WebmasterWorld spotted that Google’s John Mueller said that Google may display the redirect URL in the search results over the destination URL, when they deem it is appropriate…
Google’s Matt Cutts: We Tested Dropping Backlinks From Algorithm, It Was Much Worse
Google’s Matt Cutts latest video has Google admitting they did and do indeed test their search results by turning off linkage data as part of their algorithm. Matt Cutts said the results would be “much much worse” if they did indeed do that in real li…
The Guardian Switched Domains, So Can You
The Guardian, a huge UK newspaper, posted a story named How the Guardian successfully moved domain to www.theguardian.com.
Yes, The Guardian migrated content from www.guardian.co.uk, m.guardian.co.uk or www.guardiannews.com to one domain name…
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Did Google Penalize Halifax?
Over the past couple weeks there has been a lot of people reporting large brands being penalized by Google and the question has come up if search sites should cover these penalties or not.
Our policy, if the search community is talking about it in a …
Google Says Switching To HTTPS Won’t Change Your Page Rankings
A Google Webmaster Help thread has someone complaining that his site’s rankings dropped and the one thing he noticed was that his home page and 56 other pages are indexed in Google with the https version…
Google: GoogleBot Follows Up To Five Redirects At The Same Time
Google’s John Muller said in a webmaster hangout on Friday that GoogleBot will follow up to five redirects at the same time, past that, you are probably out of luck.
I don’t believe we had a number, a solid number, on how many redirects Google will fo…
Google’s Advice On Infinite Crawl Pages & SEO
Yesterday, Google’s John Mueller, Maile Ohye, and Joachim Kupke co-authored a technical blog post on the Google Webmaster Blog on how to make infinite scroll pages more search engine friendly…
Google: Reporting Catching Up In Google Webmaster Tools
Earlier this week, we reported about widespread reports of mass impression drops within Google Webmaster Tools. It was so widespread that it had to be a Google bug.
The weird part was, no Google response. Nothing from them saying, we know…
Google Drops New Webmaster Guideline On Not Blocking Google Ads
Yesterday we broke the news that Google added that you should not block Google ads within the technical requirements within Google’s Webmaster Guidelines.
It seems Google has pulled the new line completely from their guidelines…
The Typical Day Of A Google Spam Fighter
Yesterday, Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, posted a long video describing what the typical day is like for a Google spam fighter…
Google On Faceted Navigation: Block A Lot Of It
Google’s Developer Programs Tech Lead, Maile Ohye and Crawl Team, Mehmet Aktuna wrote a detailed blog post on best practices for faceted navigation…
Google Webmaster Guidelines Adds Not To Block Google Ads With Robots.txt
A new update has been made to the Google webmaster guidelines document…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Bad Grammar In Comments Doesn’t Hurt Your Rankings
The other day, Google’s Matt Cutts posted a video answering if poor grammar in comments hurts the page’s rankings. In short, the answer is no – bad or poor grammar does not hurt your rankings if done in comments…
Oy Vey: How Google Crippled SEO Companies By One “SEO Expert”
I was almost floored reading a post at High Rankings Forum from an “SEO expert” who explained how Google has crippled SEO companies and is driving them into “the dreaded adwords…
Google Webmaster Tools Search Queries Impression Data Drop?
There are many reports both in the Google Webmaster Help forums and WebmasterWorld reporting major drops in the number of impressions reported within the search queries report in Google Webmaster Tools…