Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

There are many rumors around if Google+ is dying based around Vic leaving and some other stories…

Bill Hartzer wrote that Google has targeted HARO, Help A Reporter, links in the latest manual action of unnatural links.

HARO links? Really? Would Google do that…

Google’s John Mueller posted an excellent example of a case of where a webmaster is nervous about a report in Google Webmaster Tools, when in reality, all is good.

He posted this on Google+ and shared a screen shot by Jodi Bennett…

Google’s Matt Cutts posted a video explaining why and when Google may use something other than your title tag for the search results title snippet.

Matt Cutts suggested that it is best for your to try to anticipate what the user will search for when …

A Google Webmaster Help thread has one webmaster upset Google is not picking up his markup and showing rich snippets for his site in Google’s search results.

Google’s Zineb responded that Google doesn’t show rich snippets for all sites, even if there …

Since 2008 we’ve known Google stopped their 100 links per page limit. Last year, Matt Cutts posted a video answer on that topic as well.

While Google has said they don’t have a 100 link limit anymore…

Rand Fishkin, the co-founder of Moz, announced on his personal blog a new thing he is playing with he named IMEC, aka Internet Marketing Experimental Collective…

Andrew Steel searched Google for the definition of [what is guest blogging] and the answer Google’s Knowledge Graph returned was from a parked domain site named moneyonlinemaking.com. I kid you not…

Google’s Matt Cutts posted a video on the question How can I research a domain that I may want to purchase…

Last month, we created a poll asking if you fear Google’s knowledge graph.

The reason was surrounded around the news of Google’s Singhal around the swiss army knife analogy and if that is Google’s true intent. Go read up about that if you do not kn…

As you know, Yandex, the popular Russian search engine…

It seems Google has gone after yet another guest blog network that is being used by SEOs for link building purposes. The link network is named PostJoint and has gone on record that they are different from MyBlogGuest, which was penalized a month ago.
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Google’s Matt Cutts released a video on the topic of some of the largest SEO myths out today.

He broke it down into two categories:

(1) Ads and their influence on organic results.

(2) Quick fixes to break Google’s algorithm.

On the ads from…
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We ran a poll late last year asking did Google’s disavow link tool work for you or not?

As you know…

Google’s John Mueller posted on Google+ a hint and reminder about the problems with not thinking too far ahead. In short…

A while back, we polled our audience asking if they prefer manual or algorithmic penalties by Google – that is, if you had to pick one or the other.

Imagine Matt Cutts coming over to you and saying, you’re a bad boy…

We always knew 410s were more immediate and I thought they were also more permanent but I didn’t know 410s worked immediately.

In a video released by Google’s Matt Cutts yesterday…

In a Google Webmaster Help thread, Google’s John Mueller said Google mostly ignores Web 2.0 links, specifically calling out Pinterest, YouTube and others.

He wrote:

We’re already mostly ignoring those links (just like we’re ignoring the “web 2…
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Google’s Matt Cutts said he has to research about 10% of the SEO questions he answers on those daily videos. I always find it interesting trying to understand how complex the algorithm is. So I always wonder how much one person can know about it. No…

For news publishers included in Google News, you may have noticed a significant decline in your crawl stats within Google Webmaster Tools starting in March of this year…