Check Google To See If Your Name Triggers SafeSearch Before You Go With It
There is this ultra-orthodox religious Jewish magazine named Ami Magazine, I was actually profiled in it a few months ago. The interesting part is that when you Google the name, [ami magazine]…
Possible Bug May Drop Your Whole Site With Google’s URL Removal Tool
A webmaster posted an issue in the Google Webmaster Help forums with the Google URL Removal tool.
In short, the site he is working on was hacked. He is using the tool to manually remove the hacked pages from Google, one by one…
Poll: If Google Dropped Links From Their Ranking Algorithm I Would…
WebmasterWorld moderator, Greg Niland, posted a thread at WebmasterWorld on the topic of Google dropping links from their ranking algorithm…
Google NoFollows Google+ Profile Links
Folks on Google+ noticed that Google+ has recently began nofollow many of the links in your profile by default.
So if you visit my profile page on Google+, the section where it says “Links”, most of those, if not all, seem to be nofollowed…
Google Sends Manual Actions For Rich Snippet Spam & Spammy Structured Markup
Rich snippet spam has been an issue since rich snippets came out and eventually added a report rich snippet spam tool. Then Google dropped the amount of rich snippets showing in the search results recently…
Google To Bring It On German Link Spammers
Yesterday, Google posted a stern warning on the German Google Webmaster blog telling webmasters that you will be penalized for unnatural links.
Matt Cutts then Tweeted the same warning saying A reminder…
Expedia Still Under Google Penalty Two Weeks Later?
Two weeks ago, we reported that Expedia may have been penalized by Google for unnatural links…
Can You Rank In Google Without Content?
A WebmasterWorld thread has a webmaster who has a site that doesn’t have any real content. It is basically statistical downloads and specifications downloadable as PDFs or Zip files…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Don’t Use Article Directories For Link Building
In a short video yesterday, Google’s Matt Cutts told webmasters and SEOs not to use article directory sites for link building strategies.
Well…
Google Answers Questions With Longer Responses Now
Google for as long as I can remember showed answers for basic questions. Questions like what is the weather, what is 1+1 and so forth.
Now, Google is answering more complex questions with more more detailed responses…
Google Answers Questions With Longer Responses Now
Google for as long as I can remember showed answers for basic questions. Questions like what is the weather, what is 1+1 and so forth.
Now, Google is answering more complex questions with more more detailed responses…
Google’s Matt Cutts: We’re Taking Action Against Buzzea, The French Link Network
Last night at around 3am EST (this morning), Google’s Matt Cutts Tweeted, “Today we’re taking action on a French link network that violates our quality guidelines (Buzzea).”
Buzzea has already posted a message on their site acknowledging the Google pen…
Google’s Matt Cutts: We’re Taking Action Against Buzzea, The French Link Network
Last night at around 3am EST (this morning), Google’s Matt Cutts Tweeted, “Today we’re taking action on a French link network that violates our quality guidelines (Buzzea).”
Buzzea has already posted a message on their site acknowledging the Google pen…
Google To Affiliates: No Added Value, Then You Violate Our Webmaster Guidelines
Last night, Google published a blog post on their webmaster central blog notifying affiliates that if their sites do not add any value, then they may be penalized…
irwinmitchell.Âco.Âuk Also Penalized By Google, Interesting…
Yesterday we covered how Irwin Mitchell was penalized by Google but the penalty only extended to the .com address and not the .co.uk. It seems as of this morning…
Google’s Matt Cutts On When Old Sites No Longer Rank Well
Yesterday, Matt Cutts of Google released another video, this one answering why an old site that always ranked well, no longer ranks as well these days…
Why Does Irwin Mitchell’s Redirect Rank, If Google Penalized Them?
Cyrus Shepard last week posted on Google+ that the big UK law firm was likely penalized by Google based on looking at:
(1) A recent large drop in traffic and search visibility as reported by Search Metrics and
(2) Irwin Mitchell’s web site no longer…
Guest Bloggers Ask About Disavowing Links In Their Posts
Earlier this week, Matt Cutts of Google, stuck a fork in guest blogging for links or SEO purposes.
Now we have guest bloggers asking in Google Webmaster Help forums if they should be disavowing…
Google Updated Googlebot-Mobile User-Agent Name
Google announced that they are updating the name for the Googlebot-Mobile user-agent and that if you do any special directives for that user-agent…
Was Expedia Targeted By Negative SEO?
Earlier this week, Expedia saw a 25% decline in search visibility by Google. Both Google and Expedia gave a no comment on what was going on – so we are left speculating.