Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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…

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…

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…

A few days ago Peter Sciretta, the Owner/Editor of slashfilm.com, a movie blog…

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…

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…

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 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…