Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

EGOL, a long time SEO and webmaster, posted in the Cre8asite Forums thread saying long tail traffic from Google “ain’t what it use to be.”

He said back in the day he would write an article and get more than twice the traffic he does now from a simila…

Around November 17, 2012, MetaFilter got nailed by a Google update that back then Google denied.

As we explained in March, Google was working on a way to fix the algorithm that hit them back in November 2012…

Google noted on their Google+ page that they are going to announce some “big news” around their Google Webmaster Academy.

The Google Webmaster Academy is a place you can go to learn the basics around making great web sites that world well with Google’…

About a month ago, I saw some early discussions within the more blackhat SEO communities about a Google Sandbox 2.0, where Google began targeting possibly churn and burn sites from ranking well. That conversation is now creeping into the mainstream SE…

Brian Fitzpatrick, a software engineer manager at Google, posted on Twitter a screen shot of NBCNews.com not being indexed properly by Google.

He wrote…

21 months ago, Google launched the disavow tool and SEOs have been eating it up.

This comes despite Google informing us it can harm your site if used wrong, but not when others disavow your site.

However…

Greg Niland, aka goodroi, posted a thread in WebmasterWorld explaining that money management is vital in your long term SEO success.

Greg said, “having good SEO results in Google actually requires smart money management…

Google has said this before but it is always comforting hearing them say this multiple ways.

Google’s Zineb Ait Bahajji said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that if done correctly…

It has been exactly 297 days since the last official Penguin update, Penguin 2.1, which was on October 4th. That means it has almost been 10 months since the last update.
10 months of waiting for those hit hard by the Penguin algorithm. 10 months of ha…

A WebmasterWorld thread asks the question most SEOs and Webmasters have asked themselves but are too afraid to ask out loud…..

Last night, Google pushed out a new and major local search ranking algorithm change. Where Google provided details for me on this update. This is not really a spam change but more of a fundamental change to the local search ranking algorithm.

A discussion forum administrator posted questions about how to improve his forum in the eyes of Google, the question was posted in a Google Webmaster Help forum and Google’s John Mueller responded to it in detail…

A Black Hat World forum thread asks if Google’s algorithms work the same in all the various countries throughout the world.

The quick answer is no…

The co-founder of Moz, Rand Fishkin, posted on Twitter and also on the Moz blog that one of the YouMoz, the user generated content portion of Moz, contributors received a Google Manual action for a link violation and it cited an article posted on YouMo…

I am a bit tired of covering the negative SEO topic but no one can fully deny that it does not exist…

We’ve covered this before, don’t lie to Google in their Google forums. But it happens all the time…

Duplicate content in the SEO space has been an important topic for as long as I’ve been in the industry. I’ve covered it here countless times.

Today…

In a Google Webmaster Hangout from a week ago on Google+, John Mueller of Google was presented with a question on why some brands rank so well within the Knowledge Graph on Google.
Here are two examples…

Back in May we reported that eBay had some sort of penalty that hit their Google search visibility by about 50%. That is major but now we somewhat know how major.

Danny Sullivan reports on Search Engine Land that it may have costed them $200 million….

Google announced that they’ve updated the Robots.txt tester tool within Google Webmaster Tools. The tool adds three things; highlights, testing and revision history.