Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Here is the video from last week’s SMX Advanced last week with Matt Cutts and Danny Sullivan…

Here is the video from last week’s SMX Advanced last week with Matt Cutts and Danny Sullivan…

Google seems to be working up a new webmaster feature around rel-alternate-hreflang. rel-alternate-hreflang is the attribute to communicate to Google if there are alternative language based web pages for the specific web page the attribute is placed o…

A WebmasterWorld thread has one webmaster claiming he received a reconsideration request rejection notice and in that notice…

Disclaimer: You won’t learn a new search tip or news item here but you may laugh and sometimes we all need to laugh…

SMX Advanced, Maile Ohye of Google warned SMX attendees of using the noscript tag on their web site. She said something like it is an “automatic” issue of some sorts.

Yesterday in a Google Webmaster Hangout with Google’s John Mueller I asked John if Google crawls penalized sites less frequently and/or slower. He responded that Google typically does not slow the crawl for penalized sites…

A couple weeks ago, Google has vastly improved their site move documentation…

Last week, we reported that Google is improving their reconsideration request rejections with more feedback.

Well…

Last night I covered at Search Engine Land based on Google’s Matt Cutts keynote at SMX Advanced that Google has launched a new reconsideration request process to help Googlers give more feedback during the reconsideration request rejection process…
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I’ve received several reports from webmasters that the Google Structured Data report in Google Webmaster Tools is all of a sudden showing a huge drop in the items being reported.

Some are saying they’ve gone from 3…

As you may remember, Matt Cutts and the Google web spam team is not all that happy with phone number sites. They simply dislike how many of them do not add “value add” to the experience and thus have gone after them for the past couple years.
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Later on Friday, Google announced that they’ve updated their site move guidelines and documentation.

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Last week we reported that most webmasters are claiming negative SEO is easier now than ever. If you look at the conversation there, you will see it is somewhat of a hot topic…

If you had to guess what the most common SEO mistake would be, what would you guess? Building a site of all images or in Flash? Not making a title tag that says home versus your core keyword phrase? Spamming Google…

Google announced that if you are redirecting your mobile users from a specific landing page listed in Google to your mobile home page, then you need to watch out…

Google’s John Mueller posted a response in a Google Webmaster Help thread responding to someone asking if they need their keyword in their domain name.

In short, John said no, you can rank fine without having a keyword in your domain name…

As you all know, negative SEO is not new, in fact, Google has said it is rare but possible since 2007. Sites as large as Expedia may have suffered from it and Google had to reword their documentation on the topic…

On May 20th, Google began rolling out Panda 4.0 and shortly after we asked you to take our Panda poll. Thousands of you did and I wanted to share the results.

I asked, How Did Google Panda 4…

Google’s Matt Cutts answered a question on video on how Google handles content with little or no links…