Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Google has published a video of the HTTPS Everywhere presentation on YouTube. The presentation was give by Pierre Far from the Google Webmaster team and Ilya Grigorik from the Google Developer team.

The presentation was awesome because it was convers…

A thread at Google Webmaster Help asks a question that goes unanswered for the most part, “Negative SEO. How can we let the Webmaster Team know?”

How do you let Google know when you think you’ve been hit by negative SEO…

Can you redirect a penalty to a new or different domain name? Let’s say site A has a bad link penalty, either manual action or algorithmic issue. And you or a competitor decide to use a 301 redirect from site A to a site without a penalty (i.e. site B)…

As you may remember, Google Panda 4.0 had a major negative impact on many press release sites including the largest one, PR Newswire. In response, PR Newswire issued a press release about them cracking down on “spammers” by removing and “taking action”…

The Google Sandbox was a term coined back in 2004 when SEOs and webmaster began noticing their new sites were not ranking as quickly as they use to. In short, your new site got put into a sandbox, where you waited…

Yesterday, I broke the news at Search Engine Land that Google has decided to drop the images and circle counts from the authorship snippets in the Google search results.
Google’s John Mueller posted…

Yesterday, at Google I/O, Google announced that their app indexing solution is now available to everyone without requiring approval…

Yesterday we covered some SEO theories around blocking JavaScript & CSS triggering Panda 4.0 issues. I didn’t honestly believe there was a relation, based on the example provided and very few other sites reporting the same effects but now we have a response from a Googler…

CNBC published a story on a 17 year old web site that was nailed in the latest Panda update, Panda 4.0. The story is named Google’s secretive updates leave small sites scrambling…

Joost published a blog post showing how some of the sites he hit by Google Panda 4.0 and in one case, unblocking the CSS & JavaScript resulted in the site returning to its normal rankings.

Joost wrote…

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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