Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Duplicate content is a fun topic in the SEO space because Google says don’t worry about it because 30% of the web is duplicative. Google deals with it. But all good SEOs know…

The other day, Matt Cutts of Google released a 10 minute video on YouTube explaining the how search works page Google launched in March 2013.

Matt said a few relevant things that you may have not noticed before…

Google’s Maile Ohye announced yesterday improvements to how Google reports on search queries for web sites that run their mobile sites on a separate URL. Such as on m.example.com or example.mobil or so forth…

If you visit your Google Webmaster Tools Search Queries report, you will see an “update” line across the graph. When you place your cursor over the update, it reads…

A Google Webmaster Help thread has dozens of webmasters complaining about not being able to verify their web sites.

The first report came in yesterday afternoon. The webmaster said…

A Google Webmaster Help thread has an office furniture site complaining that his Google rankings dropped after the Hummingbird update was pushed out.

Of course…

You know the search queries report in Google Webmaster Tools? Of course you do…

Despite it being the month of December, which normally means it is slow, it was a pretty busy month. The past week or so has been dead, so not much to report in the first week of January…

Zemanta is a content discovery platform, they have a popular WordPress plugin that helps bloggers find related posts and related images while you write your post.

It does mention a bit on links on the plugin page:

Link Love by linking to other blogge…

Google has said time to time that having some unique content, even if it is a few sentences of unique content may be enough.

So when Gary Illyes from Google responded to a thread at Google Webmaster Help – his response stood out…

Over Christmas, Rap Genius was penalized by Google for unnatural links. In short, they offered an exchange of traffic for keyword rich links to their site. It was outed, Google’s Matt Cutts saw it, it lead to a manual action that had a serious impact o…

Did you know that if Google cannot crawl your robots.txt file, that it will stop crawling your whole site…

We know Google doesn’t like it when you submit a new reconsideration request a day or two after you get a rejection response from your reconsideration request. They want to see you put effort in after you get that response…

So we know Google has penalized sites that accept user generared content, such as Mozilla…

A Google Webmaster Help thread has a webmaster all upset that Google shows that they have indexed none of the URLs they submitted via the XML Sitemap file. Obviously, this can be concerning to any webmaster.

The thing is…

A webmaster is upset that his images aren’t being indexed from his site. He posted a complaint in the Google Webmaster Help forums…

Google’s John Mueller responded to a question in the Google Webmaster Help forums about changing a site’s URL structure completely…

Gary Illyes, a Google Webmaster Trends Analyst for Google Switzerland, who was recruited back in 2011, responded to a few threads over the holiday break. Here are two medical related sites that are complaining they don’t get traffic from Google…
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Greg Niland, aka GoodROI, posted a thread at WebmasterWorld arguing that if you do not hand over your data and content to Google in a structure format, then you will die a slow death…

It seems like Google is on a trend of telling webmasters which algorithms are impacting their site the most, at least in a negative way…