Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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…

As you know, eBay was penalized by Google either via a manual action or algorithmic action or both. Google and eBay won’t confirm it, but it is clear from the SearchMetrics charts.

The reason for the penalty is not 100% clear…

Google announced Friday that their App Indexing protocol, the ability to markup your content and have Google deep link to your Android apps content from the search results…

Google’s John Mueller announced on Google+ that instead of the standard Google Hangouts he does where he just answers questions off a list or via prompts, he will be doing one-on-one sessions, with 8 webmasters, giving them 4 minutes each…

I honestly love seeing this because it somewhat upsets me to see, I know weird… But Google’s John Mueller responded to a webmaster in a Google Webmaster Help thread about him losing 90% of his “indexing” after the Panda 4 .0 update. He said…
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Yesterday I reported at Search Engine Land that Panda 4.0 may have hurt press release sites and showed SearchMetrics data for PRWeb, PR Newswire…

Google launched their manual action viewer back in August of 2013. The question was, would Google show manual actions dating back years before that…

Pando wrote an article named After Google bought Nest, it removed one of the companyâs biggest competitors from search results showing how Vivint was removed from Google shortly after Google acquired Nest.

Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam called this “silly…

This week, Google introduced the new fetch as Google tool that now supports rendering the page as well. The tool is actually very sweet in many ways, including visualizing what Google sees and showing you what Google cannot see…

Back in 2008, Moz published a report claiming the first anchor text counts – meaning, if you have a web page that has two or more links going to the same page, but the anchor text of those links differ…

Some folks in the search space feel that adult sites, pornographic sites, are automatically considered to be spammy by Google. Truth is, while there is a ton of spam in those industries, not all adult sites are spammy.

Google’s John Mueller said so i…